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Software Development, Java, Yubikey

Calling native code with Java made easy

Java's new Foreign Function & Memory API has been around since Java 14 and is finally approaching the finish line with its third preview in Java 21. However, developer experience might still be a bit rough for use cases like calling a piece of native code ...

by Jan Mosig

10 min. reading time
Software Development, Tools, mbse, model based systems engineering, systems engineering, methods

Proven PMT Management Approaches for Automotive Innovation

In the ever-evolving automotive industry, it is essential to leverage proven approaches to managing processes, methods, and tools (PMT) to maintain a competitive advantage. An organization's ability to produce high-quality, safe software depends on its ability to ...

by Wolfgang Neuhaus

2 min. reading time
Software Development

GitHub Actions: Releasing Artifacts Into Maven Central

Usually automating things on GitHub means using GitHub Actions. This is GitHub's analogon to GitLab's CI-scripts and Jenkins' jobs. But how to combine these with Maven to release artifacts into Maven Central?

by Jan Mosig

9 min. reading time
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, Logistik

Blockchain project HANSEBLOC completed with the participation of itemis AG

Germany is a pioneer when it comes to logistics. In order for this to remain like that in the future, logistics must keep pace with digitization.

by Holger Schill

5 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
itemis products, itemis CREATE, Software Development, Embedded

YAKINDU Statechart Tools 4.0 – State machines made easy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE It was already some time ago when we realized that YAKINDU Statechart Tools (YAKINDU Statechart Tools is now itemis CREATE) need a fundamental overhaul to facilitate the development of further features our ...

by Thomas Kutz

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, GEF, Software Development

Getting started with Eclipse GEF – the Mindmap Tutorial

The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework is a toolkit to create graphical Java applications either integrated in Eclipse or standalone. The most common use of the framework is to develop diagram editors, like a simple Mindmap editor we will create in the GEF ...

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, GEF, Software Development

After eight: How to set up Eclipse tool development with OpenJDK, GEF, and OpenJFX for newer Java versions

The article describes the solution to possible stumbling blocks in overcoming a transition from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK 11 in PDE development with GEF and JavaFX.

by Svenja Wendler

8 min. reading time

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