Friday, February 05, 2010
 

Helios Xtext coming along nicely

If you're an Xtext user you should take a look at the New and Noteworthy for Helios M5. The itemis team in Kiel is making good progress and the feature set for Helios is shaping up nicely.

I guess there's no point in repeating what the New and Noteworthy says, but I want to point out one feature specifically: the Builder infrastructure results in a "global model space". In other words you don't have to explicitly import resources (files) to be able to refernece an element. You can do it like Java and work with logical namespaces or packages or something. In the M5 release the guys added a feature which makes this facility perfect: Ctrl-Shift-Z opens a dialog where you can enter a the name of a model element and you can directly jump to that element. This completes the "Java IDE feeling" for your own DSLs. Very nice :-)

If you want to try it out get the M5 distro. It contains a bunch of examples that showcase the new features.
 
Comments:
While searching good tools for the MDD when surf the Eclipse website, I get n terrible confused between so many Eclipse projects working on MDD. Can you help me in some article that differentiates between so many parallel Eclipse projects for MDD?
Projects are EMF, GMF, , GEF, TMF, TCF, XText, oAW, Aceeleo, M2M, M2T, MDT
All these frameworks can be understandable in chunks but I can relate these overlapping frameworks in a big picture and what framework I really need to the work I want to do. Can you help me in this?
 
While searching good tools for the MDD when surf the Eclipse website, I get n terrible confused between so many Eclipse projects working on MDD. Can you help me in some article that differentiates between so many parallel Eclipse projects for MDD?
Projects are EMF, GMF, , GEF, TMF, TCF, XText, oAW, Aceeleo, M2M, M2T, MDT
All these frameworks can be understandable in chunks but I can relate these overlapping frameworks in a big picture and what framework I really need to the work I want to do. Can you help me in this?
 
I like the Global Model Space, this sounds exactly like the CrossX we did in Mod4j. One question, does the Global Model Space also work with non-Xtext EMF models? That would be really cool, it gives us an Global EMF Model Space.
 
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