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Developing a custom code generator by example of SCXML

This blog post explains how to develop a custom code generator for the open source framework YAKINDU Statechart Tools. As an example, we will generate Statechart XML (SCXML) from a simple stop watch state machine.

by Andreas Mülder

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext Usability: Hovers on keywords

Xtext has become a framework not only for domain specific languages spoken, authored and read by programmers, but also by real (business-) domain experts themselves. Sometimes these people have reservations such as “a (textual) editor can never provide as much ...

by Boris Holzer

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Visualize Xtext models with PlantUML

In this post I show how to (ab)use PlantUML to visualize Xtext models. Warning: This is about diagrams, not about UML.

by Boris Holzer

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Xtext and itemis – the story will continue!

For nearly 8 years Xtext and itemis have been inextricably linked and regularly named in one sentence. We invested a lot to make Xtext what it is today -- a powerful and beloved framework, that helps to solve real-world problems.

by Holger Schill

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Xtext 2.9 is out – Now also for IntelliJ & Web

Xtext is a new kind of language engineering toolkit, that has been around in Eclipse-land for six years already and has there helped many projects to implement domain-specific languages and general programming languages plus professional Eclipse plug-ins for them. ...

by Holger Schill

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

Get started with Xtext and Eclipse in 5 Minutes

With this post I'll demo the creation of a new Xtext project in Eclipse. I'll show you how to compile and start editors tailored to your languages for testing. Xtext offers the creation of such language-specific editors for the Eclipse platform, the IntelliJ IDEA ...

by Xtext-Team

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Embedded

Tycho 0.24, pom less builds and Eclipse m2e maven integration

Tycho 0.24 has been released, and one of its most interesting features is the support for POM-less builds. The Tycho 0.24 release notes explain the use of the extension. However, there is a problem with the .mvn/extensions.xml not being found when using Eclipse ...

by Andreas Graf

2 min. reading time

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