Continuous Integration systems

Using Maven/Tycho, the building and testing of your DSL implementation can be automated, even on a continuous integration server. One of the most common open source continuous integration servers is Jenkins (http://jenkins-ci.org/). This subject is outside the scope of the book; we refer the interested reader to the Jenkins documentation for its installation and use. Once you get familiar with Jenkins, setting up a build job for your Xtext DSL project is really straightforward by relying on the Maven configuration files generated by the Xtext project wizard.

You can use build jobs in Jenkins for your DSL to continuously test your DSL projects when new modifications are committed to the SCM repository as we do for the examples of this book, as briefly described in the next section. You can have nightly jobs that create the p2 repository and make it available on the web; the nightly builds are common to many Eclipse projects, such as Xtext itself.

If your project...