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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext’s new umbrella repository

On November 18th the Eclipse Xtext project added a new source repository eclipse/xtext-umbrella. This article describes the reasons for this additional repository and what is developed in there.

by Karsten Thoms

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.9 – New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE The YAKINDU team is happy to announce the new YAKINDU Statechart Tools 2.9.0 release! Only 6 weeks after our last release we are proud to present you the new version with some long-expected features and ...

by Andreas Mülder

4 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Chicken and Pig

Question: Concerning a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what's the difference between the role of the chicken and that of the pig? Answer: The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed! So what does that have to do with my work on Xtext?

by Karsten Thoms

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

Building Xtext DSLs with Gradle

When it comes to picking a tool for building Xtext projects many users still prefer Maven Tycho. With the rise of Gradle as the primary build tool for many companies the game is gradually changing and developers exposed to Gradle hardly want to turn back to Maven ...

by Franz Becker

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Language development on .NET with Xtext – Part 2: Creating a .NET assembly from an Xtext DSL

In the first part of this blog series we have introduced an example use case of integrating an Xtext DSL in a C# command-line calculator. This post will go into the details of how to use Maven to create a .NET assembly containing the DSL and Xtext runtime classes ...

by Bernhard Stadler

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

BMW builds AUTOSAR backbone with open source projects sponsored by itemis

On September 28th the 9th AUTOSAR Open Conference took place in Gothenburg. From an Eclipse/Open Source point of view, Bernd Jäger's (BMW) talk on their Symphony project is very interesting.

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Language development on .NET with Xtext – Part 1: Overview

This blog series will illustrate the integration of a simple Xtext DSL within a .NET command-line application written in C# by using the Java-to-.NET translator IKVM.NET. In this first part of the series, we will give an overview of the example use case, a ...

by Bernhard Stadler

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

Editing Graphviz *.dot files with the GEF DOT Editor

Graphviz *.dot files are usual text files containing the textual representation of graph definitions. The structure of these *.dot files are defined by the DOT Language that provides more than 150 graph, subgraph, node and edge attributes to influence the graph ...

by Tamas Miklossy

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.11 Release Plan Changed

The Eclipse Xtext project team has decided to change the schedule for the upcoming 2.11 release. The release was planned for October 18th, 2016 – right before EclipseCon Europe. However, instead of releasing the final version on that date, a beta version of ...

by Xtext-Team

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext hint: Content assist for multiple consecutive keywords

Keywords play a central role in Xtext DSLs to define the languages general structure. In many cases a single keyword is sufficient to specify what is expected next. Although Xtext generally supports multiple consecutive keywords the default content assist ...

by Hendrik Bünder

7 min. reading time

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