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  • Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

    Domain-specific visualization of textual models with Xtext and Sirius

    Some people say graphical modeling is dead and textual modeling is the better maybe the only way. As an Xtext-enthusiast I would always argue that modeling should be done textually.

    by Hendrik Bünder
    10 min. reading time
  • Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

    Eclipse Xtext 2.13 is released!

    Right on time for EclipseCon Europe the Xtext project managed to release its new version 2.13. Xtext 2.13 is the first version for the Eclipse Photon simultaneous release and was designed to fit well with the recently released Eclipse Oxygen.1a version. For users ...

    by Karsten Thoms
    8 min. reading time
  • Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

    About the Power of Open Source Development at Eclipse

    As a project deeply integrated with Eclipse JDT, Xtext has sometimes also to use internal API. This is, for example, necessary to leverage best performance of accessing Java elements. We try to avoid this whenever possible sometimes even by duplicating the code, ...

    by Karsten Thoms
    6 min. reading time
  • Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

    Formatting for the Masses

    Reading source code happens way more often than writing it. And reading code is a lot easier when it is well formatted. Linebreaks and indentations are guiding the reader and it is more obvious in which context things are happening. Doing formatting completely ...

    by Holger Schill
    5 min. reading time
  • Software Development

    Musings about Jigsaw – The Java 9 Module System

    Hooray, JavaTM 9 was released on 21 September! Arguably the most visible and most controversial new feature of the Java platform is the Java Module System Jigsaw. Project Jigsaw was initiated in 2008 and almost 10 years after the kick off, Java eventually got its ...

    by Sebastian Zarnekow
    11 min. reading time
  • Software Development, web engineering

    Developing and publishing Angular 4 libraries – Part I

    Developing large web applications with Angular is challenging, especially when it comes to structuring the code base into small, individually developed modules. Many projects struggle with this and start building huge monoliths instead.

    by Franz Becker
    10 min. reading time
  • Automotive, Software Development

    How to configure your free AUTOSAR model viewer

    Viewing and analyzing AUTOSAR models is a recurring task in automotive software development. Very often this is done by just inspecting the XML, which is cumbersome. Some companies have smarter "simple" tools in their portfolio, but they are often included in ...

    by Andreas Graf
    4 min. reading time
  • Smart Technologies, Software Development

    Which iOS and Android version should I support?

    You need an App. For your customers. You already learned, that iOS and Android are the platforms to satisfy and that everything else is dead.

    by itemis
    5 min. reading time
  • Software Development

    How to remove downloading messages from Maven log output

    I think everyone of us knows these terrible log lines that blow up the Maven log output sometimes when you've cleared your local repository. Why does the artifact resolution write out the downloading procedure for every single artifact. This unneccessarily blows ...

    by Stanley Hillner
    9 min. reading time
  • Software Development

    EB solys and Franca Contracts – Retrace and validate the usage of interfaces

    Improving the reliability of interfaces is a crucial aspect regarding the quality and predictability of complex software systems. You might know that situation from your daily work pretty well. Although you have full test coverage of your interfaces, your ...

    by Torsten Mosis
    6 min. reading time

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