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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Debugging Xtext grammars – what to do when your language is ambiguous

Xtext uses ANTLR to generate a lexer and parser out of your grammar. Technically an LL(*) parser gets generated. This means it cannot deal with left recursion and has an infinite lookahead.

by Holger Schill

10 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development, Automotive, Embedded

How to use a textual editor for the Autosar Adaptive Platform

AUTOSAR is about to release its new specification for the Autosar Adaptive Platform. According to AUTOSAR, the difference to classic AUTOSAR is: "In comparison to the AUTOSAR Classic Platform the AUTOSAR Runtime Environment for the Adaptive Platform dynamically ...

by Andreas Graf

4 min. reading time
itemis products, Xtext, Software Development, Embedded, Traceability

What I learned introducing a domain-specific language for configurable traceability analysis

At this years Modelsward conference I had the opportunity to present a paper about "A Domain-specific Language for Configurable Traceability Analysis" that was written in close collaboration with Prof. Dr. Kuchen and Christoph Rieger from [ERCIS] of the University ...

by Hendrik Bünder

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

itemis + TypeFox = Xtext!

As you might have noticed there was a very crucial change in the Eclipse Xtext project at the beginning of last year. Our colleagues in Kiel have decided to leave itemis and have founded their own company, TypeFox.

by Jens Wagener

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

How to get started with Xtext Language Servers and Che

Eclipse Che 5 has support for the Microsoft Language Server Protocol and so has Eclipse Xtext in its new Version 2.11. So let's see how we can bring them both together.

by Christian Dietrich

15 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext 2.11 is released!

The Xtext team is happy to announce the release 2.11. The update is available on the release repository. Eclipse independent libraries are published to Maven Central. We encourage users to upgrade now and enjoy an even better experience with the Xtext framework.

by Xtext-Team

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

XtextSummit goes EclipseCon France

Xtext is a well known framework and highly represented at conferences like EclipseCon around the world. It is always fun getting together with people who build great software and talk about their experiences with the framework. In 2014 itemis decided to host a ...

by Holger Schill

2 min. reading time
Eclipse, Usability, Software Development

How to improve your GUI design with usability tests

Developing and actually using a graphical user interface (GUI) are two sides of a coin. As a software developer, have you ever wondered how users of your application are getting along with the GUI you created for them?

by Rainer Klute

8 min. reading time
Software Development

Are physicists smarter than software developers?

Did you spend last weekend like we did? Sitting on your couch, watching the new season of CBS' The Big Bang Theory? Then you know that the great Dr. Sheldon Cooper is anything but modest about his intellect. Can you match wits with him and prove that software ...

by Jens Wagener

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Eclipse Xtext’s new umbrella repository

On November 18th the Eclipse Xtext project added a new source repository eclipse/xtext-umbrella. This article describes the reasons for this additional repository and what is developed in there.

by Karsten Thoms

7 min. reading time

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