Up to now, I was always putting the Xtend generated Java files in my git repositories (for my Xtext projects), since I still hadn’t succeeded in invoking the Xtend standalone compiler in a Buckminster build. Dennis Hübner published a post with some hints on how to achieve that, but that never worked for me (and apparently it […]
My book on Xtext, “Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend” is now available on Packt website! Get it while it’s hot! 🙂 You can find the outline and an example chapter at http://www.packtpub.com/implementing-domain-specific-languages-with-xtext-and-xtend/book Many thanks to the reviewers of the book: Jan Koehnlein, Henrik Lindberg, Pedro J. Molina, and Sebastian Zarnekow! The sources of the examples presented […]
I’m happy to announce that my book “Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend” is now available for pre-order on Packt website! 🙂 http://www.packtpub.com/implementing-domain-specific-languages-with-xtext-and-xtend/book
I know that Xtext 2.4 has not been released yet, but I could not resist blogging about a very cool new feature in Xbase: improved automatic import functionalities! Actually, import functionalities were already great when using Xbase also in previous versions of Xtext, but now they provide a much better experience for the user of […]
Revision History 9 May 2013 Updated listings to reflect the git repository sources. Put a tip on using a mirror aggregated with b3. In this tutorial I’ll show how to use Buckminster to build an Eclipse RCP Product, both in the IDE and headlessly (with ant). The application I’m building is the standard Eclipse Mail […]
In a previous post, I blogged about mirroring Eclipse repositories with the p2.mirror Ant task; Since this Ant task needs to be run via the Eclipse antRunner application, you need a full installation of Eclipse on the machine that will run the task and I showed how to run this task from the command line. […]
I used to have many Eclipse installations in my machines; typically they were different Juno versions downloaded from ecipse.org, for instance, Eclipse for RCP developers, Eclipse for DSL developers, Eclipse Modeling Tools, etc. Moreover, most of them were customized with the same plugins (for instance, Mylyn connectors) which I had to install on all of […]
Inspired by this nice blog post, I decided it was time to try to mirror some Eclipse repositories to speed up my builds that depend on target platforms insulate myself from outside servers be able to build also without an Internet connection reduce network traffic 🙂 To do this I’m using p2 ant tasks for […]
One of the new cool features which came with Xtext 2.3.0 is a wizard which generates all the artifacts to build your Xtext DSL project with Buckminster; this will allow you to easily build your Xtext project p2 site and also to build your project and its tests headlessly (e.g., from the command line, and, […]
This post was inspired by another blog post I had found on the web when trying to build a p2 site corresponding to a target platform defined for my projects. For an year I’ve been using Buckminster for building my Eclipse projects (especially when I had problems building my Xtext projects with Maven/Tycho, so that […]
The bugs described in this post are now fixed (since I became the new maintainer of this plugin 🙂 If you use Buckminster for your builds, and have a personal Jenkins build system, you might want to rely on the Buckminster Plugin, which can be installed directly from Jenkins: Unfortunately this plugin has some bugs […]
I’m really sad that EclipseCon Europe has already finished, it has been a wonderful edition with lots of very interesting presentations! My favourite ones were: Getting started with Eclipse 4 Application Development – Tutorial: The new e4 platform looks really promising and this tutorial showed most of its new interesting features, All the presentations related […]
If you have many eclipse installations (with different features/plugins) and you want to have such installations in several computers (possibly with different operating systems or with different architectures), then being able to install eclipse features from the command line might be quite helpful (at least, it is for me 🙂 You can find some related […]