Implementing domain-specific languages with Xtext and Xtend : learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices / Lorenzo Bettini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettini, Lorenzo, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering.

Domain-specific programming languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages) : color illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Bettini Lorenzo: 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.

Summary:

Learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices About This Book Leverage the latest features of Xtext and Xtend to develop a domain-specific language. Integrate Xtext with popular third party IDEs and get the best out of both worlds. Discover how to test a DSL implementation and how to customize runtime and IDE aspects of the DSL Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at programmers and developers who want to create a domain-specific language with Xtext. They should have a basic familiarity with Eclipse and its functionality. Previous experience with compiler implementation can be helpful but is not necessary since this book will explain all the development stages of a DSL. What You Will Learn Write Xtext grammar for a DSL; Use Xtend as an alternative to Java to write cleaner, easier-to-read, and more maintainable code; Build your Xtext DSLs easily with Maven/Tycho and Gradle; Write a code generator and an interpreter for a DSL; Explore the Xtext scoping mechanism for symbol resolution; Test most aspects of the DSL implementation with JUnit; Understand best practices in DSL implementations with Xtext and Xtend; Develop your Xtext DSLs using Continuous Integration mechanisms; Use an Xtext editor in a web application In Detail Xtext is an open source Eclipse framework for implementing domain-specific languages together with IDE functionalities. It lets you implement languages really quickly; most of all, it covers all aspects of a complete language infrastructure, including the parser, code generator, interpreter, and more. This book will enable you to implement Domain Specific Languages (DSL) efficiently, together with their IDE tooling, with Xtext and Xtend. Opening with brief coverage of Xtext features involved in DSL implementation, including integration in an IDE, the book will then introduce you to Xtend as this language will be used in all the examples throughout the book. You will then explore the typical programming development workflow with Xtext when we modify the grammar of the DSL. Further, the Xtend programming language (a fully-featured Java-like language tightly integrated with Java) will be introduced. We then explain the main concepts of Xtext, such as validation, code generation, and customizations of runtime and UI aspects. You will have learned how to test a DSL implemented in Xtext with JUnit and will progress to advanced concepts such as type checking and scoping. ...

Contents:

Implementing domain-specific languages with Xtext and Xtend : learn how to implement a DSL with Xtext and Xtend using easy-to-understand examples and best practices, 2nd edition

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Implementing a DSL

Chapter 2: Creating Your First Xtext Language

Chapter 3: Working with the Xtend Programming Language

Chapter 4: Validation

Chapter 5: Code Generation

Chapter 6: Customizing Xtext Components

Chapter 7: Testing

Chapter 8: An Expression Language

Chapter 9: Type Checking

Chapter 10: Scoping

Chapter 11: Continuous Integration

Chapter 12: Xbase

Chapter 13: Advanced Topics

Chapter 14: Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2017).

ISBN:

9781786463272

178646327X

OCLC:

958956152