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Lorenzo Bettini
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Lorenzo Bettini

Lorenzo Bettini is an associate professor in computer science at the Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "Giuseppe Parenti," Universit di Firenze, Italy. Previously, he was a researcher in computer science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit di Torino, Italy. He also was a Postdoc and a contractual researcher at Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universit di Firenze, Italy. He has a masters degree summa cum laude in computer science and a PhD in "Logics and Theoretical Computer Science." His research interests cover design, theory, and the implementation of programming languages (in particular, objectoriented languages and network-aware languages). He has been using Xtext since version 0.7. He has used Xtext and Xtend for implementing many domain-specific languages and Java-like programming languages. He also contributed to Xtext, and he recently became an Xtext committer. He is the author of the first edition of the book "Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend", published by Packt Publishing (August 21, 2013). He is also the author of about 80 papers published in international conferences and international journals. You can contact him at http://www.lorenzobettini.it.
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Eclipse features and p2 repositories


An Eclipse feature groups together several related plug-ins that can be installed in an Eclipse instance. Eclipse handles installation and updates of software using the provisioning platform called p2. This provisioning technology will take care of resolving dependencies between software components; p2 will compute the complete set of required software automatically. We will go into more details about installation requirements at the end of the chapter.

Features and the plug-ins included in the features are served by a p2 repository. Such a repository can be put on a web server to make it available to other users. Old style Eclipse update sites have been since long deprecated and replaced by p2 repositories. Most of the sites you have been using to install new features into your Eclipse are p2 repositories; thus, you should build a p2 repository for your DSL, if you want users to easily install it in Eclipse.

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Pay attention to the fact that "p2 repositories...

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Lorenzo Bettini

Lorenzo Bettini is an associate professor in computer science at the Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "Giuseppe Parenti," Universit di Firenze, Italy. Previously, he was a researcher in computer science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit di Torino, Italy. He also was a Postdoc and a contractual researcher at Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universit di Firenze, Italy. He has a masters degree summa cum laude in computer science and a PhD in "Logics and Theoretical Computer Science." His research interests cover design, theory, and the implementation of programming languages (in particular, objectoriented languages and network-aware languages). He has been using Xtext since version 0.7. He has used Xtext and Xtend for implementing many domain-specific languages and Java-like programming languages. He also contributed to Xtext, and he recently became an Xtext committer. He is the author of the first edition of the book "Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend", published by Packt Publishing (August 21, 2013). He is also the author of about 80 papers published in international conferences and international journals. You can contact him at http://www.lorenzobettini.it.
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