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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext 2.14 released!

The Xtext team proudly announces the availability of the 2.14 release. While the previous releases have focused on performance and internal improvements this release comes with a bunch of new features that will ease your life and make your DSLs even more valuable. ...

by Xtext-Team

6 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

New File Wizard – easy to generate with Xtext 2.14

We have already shown on our blog how to generate a new project wizard with Xtext 2.14. Now it's also possible to create a comparable wizard, also based on templates, for creating DSL files in existing projects.

by Arne Deutsch

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Generating a new project wizard with Xtext 2.14

Anyone who implements DSLs with Eclipse Xtext benefits from the fact that the necessary infrastructure is generated automatically from the grammar. This gives you an environment in which everything is provided for developing your own DSL with minimum effort. A ...

by Arne Deutsch

16 min. reading time
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
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
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
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
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, Language Engineering

Building Domain-specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

Specifying the requirements of a software system and converting such a specification into executable source code is difficult and error-prone. Requirements specifications written in prose are often ambiguous and hard to understand for developers. Therefore, the ...

by Hendrik Bünder

13 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development, GEF, Language Engineering

Pro Tip: Visualizing Xtext Grammar with Eclipse GEF

The Xtext grammar is the central component when developing DSL workbenches based on the Xtext framework. In case of complex DSLs, analyzing the graphical representation of *.xtext files can be useful to understand the structure of defined grammar rules.

by Tamas Miklossy

3 min. reading time

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