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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.17 – The Java 11 release

The Xtext team is proud to announce release version 2.17 of the famous Language Engineering framework. 16 individual contributors have fixed almost 100 issues and 250 pull requests with ~600 commits – and that’s just in 3 months! Xtext 2.17 participates in the ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Software Development

Model transformations for MBSE with Cameo and Xtend

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is one of the most important approaches to managing complexity. Using models as central artifacts also implies that they have to be integrated with other development artifacts. It also means that the tools being used to ...

by Andreas Graf

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.16 released!

The Xtext Team happily announces the availability of release 2.16.0. This release is part of the Eclipse 2018-12 simultaneous release, which is the 2nd release with the new quarterly release cadence. Besides stability and performance again, compatibility with the ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, DSL, Software Development

Combining EMF Models with Xtext DSLs

This blog post demonstrates use cases on combining EMF models with Xtext DSLs. It is based on Martin Fowler's secret compartment state machine implementation available via the Xtext Example Wizard.

by Tamas Miklossy

7 min. reading time
Automotive, Eclipse, Software Development

Enabling the simulation of autonomous vehicles through openADX

The development of a modern autonomous vehicle requires that the behaviour of the car is validated and verified in a large number of driving scenarios. These scenarios cannot be driven in the real world - except for the time it would require, it is virtually ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, GEF, Software Development

Eclipse GEF DOT – Graphical Views on Xtext DSLs

The previous blog post introduced complex Graphviz *.dot graphs to add Eclipse GEF DOT-based visualization support to the Eclipse IDE. This blog post demonstrates the usage of the GEF DOT Graph View to add graphical representations to Xtext DSLs.

by Tamas Miklossy

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, GEF, Software Development

Adding GEF DOT-based visualization support to the Eclipse IDE

The previous blog post introduced the GEF DOT Editor that assists the user in editing Graphviz *.dot files and the GEF DOT Graph View that is capable of visualizing them in the Eclipse Workbench UI. This blog post continues with more complex DOT graphs to show ...

by Tamas Miklossy

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.15 released!

We are proud to announce Xtext and Xtend 2.15! As you can learn from the release notes (Xtext and Xtend), the focus of this release was on stability, quality and performance. Especially the Xtend Gradle build could be improved significantly and the integration ...

by Xtext-Team

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext editors for binary files

What does "4 + 1" mean? Well, for example itemis employees have been developing a Java bytecode editor with Xtext. This editor allows the contents of .class files to be made visible and editable. In the first part of this article I explained how the JBC editor is ...

by Arne Deutsch

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Language Engineering

What's new in Xtext and Xtend 2.14: The journey of Tina Toolsmith

Tina Toolsmith is one of those typical developers. She loves to code in the office, on the train, during a long flight or even while sitting on her sunny terrace during her vacation. Tina takes great pleasure in using the latest programming languages, frameworks, ...

by Hendrik Bünder

11 min. reading time

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