Re-engineering Eclipse MDT/OCL for Xtext

Authors

  • Edward Willink

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14279/tuj.eceasst.36.444

Abstract

The current tooling used for the Eclipse OCL project uses an LALR parser generator. Enhancing the tooling to support editing motivated a migration to exploit the inherently model-driven characteristics of Xtext. This paper summarizes the experiences of that migration, identifies the many benefits and discusses a few changes in implementation approach that were required. Objective performance and size comparisons between the old LALR and new Xtext approach are provided.

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Published

2011-03-13

How to Cite

[1]
E. Willink, “Re-engineering Eclipse MDT/OCL for Xtext”, eceasst, vol. 36, Mar. 2011.