A few days ago I finished my bachelor thesis with the title Integrating Xtext in an existing Software development process. I developed a domain specific language with Xtext and some extensions for easily adding new generators as new Eclipse plug-ins. After finishing the thesis I added a Maven Tycho based build Read more…
As I mentioned in my last post the current Xtext DSL I am working on provides annotation support. Every artifact generator plug-in can provide additional annotations which influences the generation process of different artifacts. My unit tests were all green but at runtime in Eclipse/OSGi environment I received the following Read more…
Today I implemented the last feature of my bachelor thesis and struggled upon a small problem: My DSL makes use of XAnnotation to annotate various grammar elements. The generators can extend the DSL by introducing new annotations which can be used for modifying the generation process of the resulting fragments. Read more…