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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Code Mining Support in Xtext

One of the most notable new APIs in Eclipse Photon is called Code Mining. A code mining represents content (i.e. labels and icons) that are shown within the text editor, but are not part of the text itself. For example, within a method call statement a mining ...

by Karsten Thoms

8 min. reading time
Software Development

Security Engineering in the Automotive Industry

In a world where virtually everything is connected to the internet, security is essential. This is especially crucial in complex systems: complexity is the enemy of security. Today’s cars are examples of such systems, they have lots of components that can be a ...

by Dirk Leopold

7 min. reading time
Software Development, Embedded

Tailoring Enterprise Architect with Add-ins

This is the second of three articles in which I would like to discuss common issues (and our solutions) that occur when Enterprise Architect, EA for short, is used to create models that are processed further by other tools.

by Martin Hentschel

10 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.14 adds support for JUnit 5

Unit tests written for Xtext DSLs are typically using Xtext’s testing infrastructure provided by the org.eclipse.xtext.testing bundle. Older tests might even still use the deprecated org.eclipse.xtext.junit4 bundle. Tests for DSLs need to inject a language ...

by Karsten Thoms

5 min. reading time
Software Development, Embedded

Tailoring Enterprise Architect with MDG Technologies

Enterprise Architect, EA for short, is a widely used integrated modeling platform with an impressive amount of supported languages including UML, SysML or BPMN. But even with this large collection of languages, you may have found yourself in a situation where none ...

by Martin Hentschel

13 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Announcement: Xtext 2.14 RC1 is now available

The Xtext team proudly announces the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming 2.14 release.

by Xtext-Team

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtend 2.14 – Unnecessary modifiers validation

In the Xtend programming language, visibility modifiers are unnecessary when they match the defaults. The public modifier is default on: Classes Interfaces Enums Annotatitons Constructors Methods The private modifier is default on: Fields

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time
Automotive, Software Development

Internship at itemis: Robocar showcase of machine learning

At itemis, we are involved in automotive software projects in terms of modeling (domain specific languages for architecture and behavior), tooling (architecture, feature models, implementation, Machine Learning) and concepts/standards (AUTOSAR, Genivi, openADX). ...

by Andreas Graf

3 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

In five minutes to transitive imports within a DSL with Xtext

Xtext allows elements in DSLs to be referenced in several ways. One is to import elements via namespaces. This is done through the use of ImportedNamespaceAwareLocalScopeProvider, and allows the import of individual or, using wildcards (. *), all elements of a ...

by Christian Wehrheim

8 min. reading time

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