Xtext M6 with more documentation and stable API
March 19, 2009 6 CommentsAccording to the project plan we have published the sixth milestone version of TMF Xtext this Tuesday. Please note, this is not a release candidate, yet. Nevertheless, it's another huge step towards the Galileo release in June ...
Xtext and oAW at Code Generation 2009
March 6, 2009 1 CommentThe conference program of the Code Generation 2009 has just been released and there will be several sessions that directly or indirectly address Xtext and openArchitectureWare. Tutorial (75 minutes, Tuesday morning) Challenges in DSL Design Sven Efftinge, Sebastian Zarnekow Case study (75 ...
Speed Comparison of oAW and M2T Xpand
February 10, 2009 No CommentsMigrating a real world openArchitectureWare Xtext/Xpand project to the corresponding Eclipse M5 modeling projects (TMF, M2T) I had the opportunity to see the results of our ongoing speed improvement effort. While the part of code generation of ...
Building a java classpath from a windows batch file
January 26, 2009 2 CommentsA great feature introduced with the JDK 6 is the improved classpath syntax for including Jars of a specific directory. This allows you to do this javac -cp "lib\*" MyClass.java java -cp "lib\*" MyClass from the command line without using ...
Multiple Inheritance and the Least (Unambiguous) Common Compatible Type
December 8, 2008 No CommentsWhile working on Xtext and the inference of meta-models of a given grammar I encountered different problems that could be broken down to a well-known question: "What is the least common compatible type of those?". While Liskov ...
Use Eclipse as diff tool
December 2, 2008 11 CommentsComing from the windows platform I am used to tools like WinMerge or AraxisMerge (commercial) that offer a more comfortable way to compare the content of files than diff --side-by-side. To my suprise I did not find ...
Model-Based UIs and Refactorings at the ESE 2008
November 21, 2008 No CommentsBeside many other interesting presentations and talks there were two exciting projects I learned about at the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Olivier demonstrates Wazaabi 2.0 to me"][/caption] On Wednesday, Olivier Moïses, the lead of wazaabi, ...
Modeling Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008
November 18, 2008 No CommentsToday, the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 starts with different symposia reaching from embedded runtimes over banking industry to test-driven development to name a few. At the Modeling Symposium Peter and me presented a position paper that outlines ...
Heiko Behrens
works as a software architect and consultant for itemis AG in Kiel (Germany).
His current focus is on domain-specific languages (DSLs) where he is
involved with the design and implementation of Xtext.
He is a commiter for the Eclipse Modeling Project and openArchitectureWare.
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