Announcing the Xtext Webinar on Wednesday, 15th July
July 12, 2009 7 CommentsNext Wednesday, Sven and I will hold the Eclipse Webinar "Xtext: Developing Domain Specific Languages". We are going to classify Xtext compared to other concepts and frameworks and demonstrate its capabilities with a refined version of an ...
Xtext at DemoCamp London in June 2009
July 1, 2009 9 CommentsThis Monday the Eclipse DemoCamp took place in London at Skills Matter. You will find a comprehensive review at InfoQ by Alex Blewitt where you can read about NatTable (Dan Pollitt) and JQantLib/OSGi (Richard Gomes) as well ...
Impressions of Code Generation 2009
June 17, 2009 1 CommentOn Monday, Sven, Sebastian, Moritz, Jan and me traveled to Cambridge where the Code Generation Conference takes place each year. Arriving one day ahead we had enough time to acclimate with fish 'n chips and some ale ...
New Xtext Logo
June 7, 2009 3 CommentsReading tweets, newsgroup posts, blogs, articles or press releases I am very excited to notice that xText gains increasing attention. As far as I can see most newcomers learn about xtext as a great tool to create ...
Xtext at Eclipse DemoCamp May 2009 in Hamburg
May 26, 2009 1 CommentYesterday's Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg was a successful social event. The organizers Peter and Martin scheduled the Eclipse Stammtisch directly after the demo sessions so that many known but (to me) even more unknown faces gathered together ...
Generation Gap Pattern
April 23, 2009 7 CommentsThe Generation Gap Pattern is a common way to weave manually written code into generated software artifacts. While this pattern describes how to structure your classes logically it does not teach you where to place these classes ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
