Tuesday, June 3, 2008

New Article on Textual DSLs with EMP

Peter, Sven and me, we have composed an Eclipse article on how to create your own textual DSL using tools from the Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP). It covers the definition of a grammar using Xtext, generating, running and customizing the DSL editor, adding constraints with Check and generating code with Xpand. You can find it here.

We are convinced that the described approach one of the most pragmatic ways of designing DSLs and implement code generators. If you have just a little bit of experience with the described technologies, creating your own external DSL becomes nearly as natural as writing Java code.

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