Eclipse Summit Europe - Xtext - From Galileo to Helios
Abstract
The Xtext framework greatly eases the development of textual domain specific languages (DSL). The version 0.7.0 of Xtext was part of this year’s Galileo Release and the next major release will be available with Eclipse Helios which is due Summer 2010. While the framework already provides a mighty, full fledged IDE for your very own languages, a greatly customizable environment and a very good integration into the Eclipse modeling ecosystem, the next version will be a great step forward towards the vision of language workbenches. In this talk we will present the state of the art in textual DSL development with Xtext, some core concepts behind the scenes and ideas for the next version. We’ll demonstrate existing and new features and give a glimpse on the things that are to come in Helios with TMF Xtext 0.8.
Contact
Sven Efftinge, Branch Manager itemis Kiel
Sven Efftinge manages the itemis branch in Kiel and engages himself there with domain specific languages, generator development and eclipse technologies. He is an eclipse committer and is responsible for the Xtext-framework and architect of the Xpand-language family (also known as openArchitectureWare).
Sven Efftinge regularly speaks at software conferences, writes professional articles and is co-author of the book “Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung”, (Model-Driven Software Development) (published at dpunkt-Verlag).
Sebastian Zarnekow, Software Architect
Sebastion Zarnekow works for itemis AG in Kiel. As a co-architect of the language Xtend (http://xtend-lang.org) and the Xtext framework (http://xtext.org), he has specialized in the design of programming languages, their implementation and the development of integrated editors in the Eclipse environment. Sebastian Zarnekow speaks regularly at international conferences and is the author of many professional articles.