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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Announcement: Xtext 2.14 RC1 is now available

The Xtext team proudly announces the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.14 release.

by Xtext-Team

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtend 2.14 – Unnecessary modifiers validation

In the Xtend programming language, visibility modifiers are unnecessary when they match the defaults. The public modifier is default on: Classes Interfaces Enums Annotatitons Constructors Methods The private modifier is default on: Fields

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

In five minutes to transitive imports within a DSL with Xtext

Xtext allows elements in DSLs to be referenced in several ways. One is to import elements via namespaces. This is done through the use of ImportedNamespaceAwareLocalScopeProvider, and allows the import of individual or, using wildcards (. *), all elements of a ...

by Christian Wehrheim

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Building Domain-specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

Specifying the requirements of a software system and converting such a specification into executable source code is difficult and error-prone. Requirements specifications written in prose are often ambiguous and hard to understand for developers. Therefore, the ...

by Hendrik Bünder

13 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, GEF, Language Engineering

Pro Tip: Visualizing Xtext Grammar with Eclipse GEF

The Xtext grammar is the central component when developing DSL workbenches based on the Xtext framework. In case of complex DSLs, analyzing the graphical representation of *.xtext files can be useful to understand the structure of defined grammar rules.

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Becoming Xtext Co-Project Lead

I started using Xtext more than 10 years ago. Back then it was a small part of the openArchitectureware framework. I began using it heavily after the move to Eclipse and got a power user and supporter in the newsgroups and forum. In 2016 I joined the Xtext ...

by Christian Dietrich

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Machine Learning Formatting with Xtext: Part II

Hi folks! Some of you might have seen my earlier blogpost on Machine Learning Formatting. It was more or less meant as an advertiser for the Eclipse Democamp Munich. As promised, here comes the follow up blogpost with more details.

by Holger Schill

13 min. reading time
Eclipse, Software Development

Solidity Tools beta released

A couple of months ago me and my colleague Florian Antony had the chance to attend a workshop on smart contract development with Solidity. The workshop was great fun and we learned a lot about blockchains, smart contracts and the like. What we also learned is that ...

by Andreas Mülder

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Machine Learning Formatting with Xtext

Writing a codeformatter is boring and errorprone. I hate it because I'm lazy, but is there an alternative? Yes, of course! We're in 2017, folks!

by Holger Schill

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Debugging DSLs in Xtext and Eclipse

If you build your Xtext DSL using Xbase for your expressions and implementing a JvmModelInferrer for the Java Mapping you get Debugging in Eclipse for free. But what about if your DSL is not using Xbase but maps to Java anyway? With the Tracing Code Generator in ...

by Christian Dietrich

7 min. reading time

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