Comments on: Getting started with Xtext, part 2

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:56:20 +0000

Hello, Peter. I have one question. I made a DSL in xtext and now I want to make a graphical model for it. How can I invoke the objects from my DSL from another project? I’ve been searching in the source codes for two days and I cannot figure it out. Thank you. And please excuse for this relatively off-topic question.

By: Chinua

Chinua — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:24:29 +0000

Hi Peter,

Great Job!

I am very interested in a real world example as requested by Paul.

Cheers
CHINUA

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:41:16 +0000

Peter,
first of all thank you very much for your fast answer to my question. I am new to Xtext/Xpand and I still need to find my way through the jungle. I have searched the internet quite a lot for this answer, but didn’t find anything. So maybe it is time for a more real world example

Cheers Paul

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:23:30 +0000

Paul,
creating projects actually is quite easy: just create all files required. There is no such thing as a “create an Eclipse project” statement in Xpand, so you have to create all the files on your own. After the generator has created all those files, you can import the resulting project into your workspace. If you embed your generator in an Eclipse wizard, you can use the workspace resource API to create a project for you and have your generator create all remaining files. It really depends on your use case.

By: Simon Zambrovski

Simon Zambrovski — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:30:56 +0000

Good Work!
How about advanced topic like generator as a xtext build participant?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:06:41 +0000

Hi Peter,

just wanted to ask if you see a change to create not only single files but whole (eclipse) projects using XPand? E.g. if you thing about an OSGi based applicaton you could imagine an API Bundle, an IMplementation Bundle, a config Bundle etc. all based on the same model. In the example I have found so far, files are only generated into an existing (eclipse) projects. How would you generate whole (eclipse) projects instead? For any suggestions I would be thankfull

Cheers Paul

By: Omar Gomez

Omar Gomez — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:04:58 +0000

Nice tutorial,

Keep up the good work!

By: Muta

Muta — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:57:57 +0000

thanks for this great work.

“Upon activating code completion, a dialog will appear, asking you whether to add the Xpand nature”.

The dialog asks me if I want to add Xtend nature not Xpand.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:11:51 +0000

@Marcos: absolutely – Xtext can be used to create grammars for about any DSL you might think of. Also, Xpand (or JET, for that matter) can be used to generate code for just about every kind of persistence framework. You might even generate code for .NET or Delphi, if you would like to do so. Xtext and Xpand make no assumptions whatsoever about your target platform.

By: Marcos Nagamura

Marcos Nagamura — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:44:21 +0000

Peter,
great article ! I got a doubt, though, persistence uses the hibernateorm class.
Would xtext work with other orm frameworks, such as ibatis ? thanks