Friday, June 19, 2009

Xtext : New Website

It has been online for a couple of days and also been mentioned on twitter as well as in the blogosphere. But we haven't announced it "officially" yet. So here we go:

We have a new website :-)



I think Heiko really did an excellent job. Given the limited time he had (as it states in the screenshot there are only five days left...) the result is just fantastic.

How do you like it?

5 comments:

Karsten Thoms said...

Yes, the website is great! I like especially the landing page - not too full, attractive, and all necessary content on it. Good job!

Antony Wilkins said...

Great website - looks like it will be a nice one-stop shop for xtext. Looking forward to Galileo...

Great job on the CG2009 stuff too! (Best CG yet, IMO).

Can I sneak a question in, though? (A little context: I've have some quite out of date EMF experience from years ago, and lots of current experience in writing MOF based DSL/metamodels, m2m/m2t transformations, and building integrated tool-chains on top of these things.) A year ago I had time to play a little with Xtext after the CG2008, so am familiar with the concepts. In the last few days I've had a good play with the new stuff - several dsls and most parts of the tool-chain.

I'm finding it extremely productive and a joy to work with.

So - what I'm after now is something to help me learn how to integrate things together and do the more advanced things. For example - how to (loosely) couple dsls and (sometimes) reuse grammar - in a sensible way that's appropriate to this technology (i.e. I don't want to be re-invent wheels you've already made).

Are there any examples available that demonstrate the mechanics of these things (even "oAW Xtext" examples I can adapt to TMF Xtext), or even undocumented downloadable samples - I'm very good at pulling things apart and understanding them...

Sven Efftinge said...

Antony,
have you had a look into the user guide? The grammar inheritance and linking is described there. Also feel free to ask any specific questions on the newsgroup.

Antony Wilkins said...

Thanks Sven, for the quick response.

Turned out I was doing stupid things - and have got over those initial problems now - reading the older oAW docs helps (in combination with the newer stuff on xtext.org).

Of course that only leads on to doing more advanced things and more questions! - I'll ask those in the newsgroup, as you suggest, in the coming days.

Miles Parker said...

Hi Sven!

Yes, the website looks so nice that the AMP project is "borrowing" it. Hope you guys don't mind! http:/eclipse.org/amp