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Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

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Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160304
Pages 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Lorenzo Bettini Lorenzo Bettini
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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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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Implementing a DSL 2. Creating Your First Xtext Language 3. The Xtend Programming Language 4. Validation 5. Code Generation 6. Customizations 7. Testing 8. An Expression Language 9. Type Checking 10. Scoping 11. Building and Releasing 12. Xbase 13. Bibliography
Index

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) (Steinberg et al., 2008), http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf, provides code generation facilities for building tools and applications based on structured data models. Most of the Eclipse projects that in some way deal with modeling are based on EMF since it simplifies the development of complex software applications with its modeling mechanisms. The model specification ( metamodel) can be described in XMI, XML Schema, UML, Rational Rose, or annotated Java. It is also possible to specify the metamodel programmatically using Xcore, which was implemented in Xtext. Typically, a metamodel is defined in the Ecore format, which is basically an implementation of a subset of UML class diagrams.

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Pay attention to the meta levels in this context: an Ecore model is a metamodel, since it is a model describing a model. Using the metamodel EMF produces a set of Java classes for the model. If you are not familiar with modeling...

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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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