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Yakindu SCT is ready for Eclipse Juno – M15 milestone build published 28 Jul 2012 | 04:21 pm
Today we published a new milestone build (M15) that is ready to for Eclipse Juno release (4.2 and 3.8)! We did not only worked on migrating to the new Eclipse release – what indeed was not such a big ...
Preparing USB-sticks for your trainings 26 Jul 2012 | 03:24 am
When holding a Eclipse-based customer training or workshop, I like to hand out an USB-stick with the training material to each participant. An USB stick for each participant has the advantage of not h...
Custom Syntax Error Messages with Quick Fix 19 Jul 2012 | 01:10 am
Xtext editors for domain specific languages (DSLs) provide many error messages out of the box, such as syntactical errors, duplicate name errors or unresolvable references. For an improved user experi...
Nothing replaces discipline. 18 Jul 2012 | 09:27 pm
With all the static code analysis tools and books and blog posts on coding conventions there seems to be a new sentiment that you can get good code out of arbitrarily bad developers by just imposing e...
Eclipse Project Proposal 13 Jul 2012 | 01:47 am
We were planning to move the Damos project to Eclipse for quite some time now. Last month we published the Damos Eclipse project proposal at Eclipse.org. If you are interested in the project, or even ...
Seven Languages By Seven Geeks 12 Jul 2012 | 03:17 pm
One of the most powerful new features of Xtext is the capability to build languages for the JVM. In my opinion, these languages are a real breakthrough in domain-specific language design:These DSLs di...
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks! 12 Jul 2012 | 05:16 am
Xtext 2.3 is out and with it are seven cool example languages we’ve built during the last weeks. We built them so you can learn the ideas behind the new API to implement JVM-based languages. The langu...
Eclipse Juno DemoCamp Stuttgart 2012 27 Jun 2012 | 03:40 pm
itemis sponsored the Eclipse DemoCamp Stuttgart yesterday. About 60 participants saw impressive demonstrations: Frank Gerhardt started with a demonstration of GEF running in a browser on both PCs and ...
Xtend - Type-safe Groovy-style Builder API 27 Jun 2012 | 02:15 pm
In this post I want to focus on two cool language features which are both interesting for themselves but even more so in combination.The Implicit Variable 'it' If you name your variable 'it' all its m...
Parallel Type Trees: Generic Attribute vs. Generic Accessor Method 26 Jun 2012 | 10:27 am
When working with ecore models, we often encounter super/subtype relations on both the container and the member side. We want to easily access both the generic and the specific container members. Intu...
