Xtext: Model Prize Laureate

Xtext: Model Prize Laureate

What do a G1 Android mobile phone, a ticket for the Eclipse Summit Europe 2009, signed books about modeling as well as Xtext T-Shirts have in common? I am proud to say that itemis, the company I ...

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Announcing the Xtext Webinar on Wednesday, 15th July

Announcing the Xtext Webinar on Wednesday, 15th July

Next 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 ...

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Xtext at DemoCamp London in June 2009

Xtext at DemoCamp London in June 2009

This 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 ...

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New Xtext Logo

New Xtext Logo

Reading 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 ...

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Xtext at Eclipse DemoCamp May 2009 in Hamburg

Xtext at Eclipse DemoCamp May 2009 in Hamburg

Yesterday'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 ...

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Generation Gap Pattern

Generation Gap Pattern

The 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 ...

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Google App Engine for Java and Google plug-in for Eclipse

Google App Engine for Java and Google plug-in for Eclipse

Today, Google announced that the Google App Engine will support Java. This is great news for every Java developer who wants to experiment with the cloud. At the moment Google grants an "early look" to only a ...

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Xtext at EclipseCon 2009

Xtext at EclipseCon 2009

This year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara was not only about Eclipse itself. For me, a silent observer who noticed this event only via the web, it acts like an important hub for many ideas and achievements inside ...

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Xtext M6 with more documentation and stable API

Xtext M6 with more documentation and stable API

According 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 ...

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Xtext and oAW at Code Generation 2009

Xtext and oAW at Code Generation 2009

The 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 ...

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