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Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

You're reading from   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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464965
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lorenzo Bettini Lorenzo Bettini
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface Preface to the second edition
1. Implementing a DSL FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Xtext Language 3. Working with the Xtend Programming Language 4. Validation 5. Code Generation 6. Customizing Xtext Components 7. Testing 8. An Expression Language 9. Type Checking 10. Scoping 11. Continuous Integration 12. Xbase 13. Advanced Topics 14. Conclusions
A. Bibliography
Index

Google Guice in Xtext

All Xtext components rely on Google Guice dependency injection, even the classes that Xtext generates for your DSL. This means that in your classes, if you need to use a class from Xtext, you just have to declare a field of such type with the @Inject annotation.

The injection mechanism allows a DSL developer to customize basically every component of the Xtext framework. This boils down to another property of dependency injection, which, in fact, inverts dependencies. The Xtext runtime can use your classes without having a dependency to its implementer. Instead, the implementer has a dependency on the interface defined by the Xtext runtime. For this reason, dependency injection is said to implement inversion of control and the dependency inversion principle.

When running the MWE2 workflow, Xtext generates both a fully configured module and an empty module that inherits from the generated one. This allows you to override generated or default bindings. Customizations...

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