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Automotive, Software Development

Navigating AUTOSAR models with complex queries

In the previous blog posts I showed you how the basic features of Eclipse and Artop can be used to perform basic searches and navigation on AUTOSAR models. However, there are also often cases, where a user wants to perform more complex queries on AUTOSAR models.

by Andreas Graf

5 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
Software Development

UML as a Standard: Where the Promise fails

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is well established as a modeling language in many domains. One strong argument for the use of UML is the fact, that it has been standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG). Since a model-driven approach with UML mainly ...

by Andreas Graf

5 min. reading time
Automotive, Software Development

Search in and Navigate through AUTOSAR Models

In the previous post "How to configure your free AUTOSAR model viewer" I showed how to use the ARTOP project and Eclipse to configure an Eclipse RCP which can be used to view AUTOSAR model at no cost. In this post, I will add information about the default search ...

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Smart Technologies, Software Development

How secure is my app?

When it comes to more than a small marketing app, the topic of “security” is often raised and sometimes silently dropped. On the surface it is quite complex and it gains complexity when you dig deeper, talk to experts, discuss the impacts on the app.

by itemis

7 min. reading time
Software Development, Usability

Product Development without Programming Skills

We live in rapidly moving times: new products are launched at incredible speed. Bringing products to market faster than your competitors is a key criterion for success. Behind product development, however, lies an extensive and complex process that requires many ...

by Sandra Schering

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

A Bird’s View on Language Servers

To write computer programs different programming languages are used, often multiple languages for one piece of software. While programs can be written with very basic text editor like NotePad or vi, normally dedicated programming tools are used that give ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

A UML-agnostic Migration Approach: From UML to DSL

Over the last decade, open source frameworks for creating domain-specific language workbenches have improved significantly. Thereby, it has become easier to utilize model-driven software engineering based on domain-specific languages (DSL). However, many companies ...

by Hendrik Bünder

7 min. reading time

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