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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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Other customizations


All the customizations you have seen so far were based on modification of a generated stub class with accompanying generated Guice bindings in the module under the src-gen directory.

However, since Xtext relies on injection everywhere, it is possible to inject a custom implementation for any mechanism, even if no stub class has been generated.

Tip

If you installed Xtext SDK in your Eclipse, the sources of Xtext are available for you to inspect. You should learn to inspect these sources by navigating to them and see what gets injected and how it is used. Then you are ready to provide a custom implementation and inject it. You can use the Eclipse Navigate menu. In particular, to quickly open a Java file (even from a library if it comes with sources), use Ctrl + Shift + T (Open Type...). This works only for Java classes, so if you want to quickly open another source file (for example, an Xtend class or the Xtext grammar file) use Ctrl + Shift + R (Open Resource...). Both...

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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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