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Software Development, Language Engineering

An Introduction to Modeling and Language Engineering – Part 2

Now that the basics of modeling have been covered in Part 1, we can look at something else that itemis does regularly to solve tricky problems: Language Engineering.

by Dirk Leopold

9 min. reading time
Software Development, Language Engineering

An Introduction to Modeling and Language Engineering – Part 1

The new year is already in full swing and therefore many people are also focusing on New Year's resolutions, as well as many other exciting projects. Occasionally, you should perhaps allow yourself a change. So how about playing? You heard right, playing! As a ...

by Dirk Leopold

7 min. reading time
Software Development, Tools, Language Engineering

Modelix and the Future of Language Engineering

We are developing Modelix, a new browser-based language workbench with real-time collaboration support and with MPS in the backend. In this post you will learn what drove us to this project, what the main architectural building blocks are and what the current ...

by Markus Völter

11 min. reading time
Software Development, Language Engineering

Unleash the Fachlichkeit: Convecton from a Language Engineering Perspective

Some of you might have heard that at itemis we are working on a new web-based language workbench called Convecton.

by Alexander Nyßen

4 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
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Generating a new project wizard with Xtext 2.14

Anyone who implements DSLs with Eclipse Xtext benefits from the fact that the necessary infrastructure is generated automatically from the grammar. This gives you an environment in which everything is provided for developing your own DSL with minimum effort. A ...

by Arne Deutsch

16 min. reading time
Software Development, Language Engineering

The Business DSL: Zurich Insurance

Insurance products are complicated. They involve sophisticated math and lots of interacting rules. They exhibit significant variability between different markets. They change over time, for example, driven by changes in law or updated risk assessments from the ...

by Markus Völter

5 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
Software Development, Language Engineering

Testing Languages, Generators and Runtimes in a Safety-Critical System

Last year we ran a project with Voluntis in which we built DSLs for use in the healthcare domain. The benefits of the approach are readily obvious: the domain experts can much more easily review, test, explore, or even write the application logic. The overall ...

by Markus Völter

2 min. reading time

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