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Jnario - BDD for Java (continued)

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Sebastian Benz [E.S.R. Labs], Birgit Engelmann [BMW Car IT]

Jnario is a new test framework for Java focusing on the design and documentation aspects of testing. Jnario consists of two domain-specific languages, one for writing readable acceptance specifications, the other for succinct unit specifications. Together they are well suited for behavior driven development (BDD) of Java programs.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
25 October 11:00 - 11:30
Room: 
Bürgersaal 2
Status: 
Accepted

Audience

Track: 
Eclipse Technology
Experience level: 
Beginner

Massively Reducing the Effort to Test Xtext Languages

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Moritz Eysholdt , Andreas Graf [itemis]

Most people agree that to develop a stable and mature software, it is helpful to have automated tests. This also applies for developing Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and their tool support.

However, during the recent years of doing consulting around Xtext, we came to notice that the test coverage tends to be too low to rely on or even non-existent. People perceived tests as too difficult to write and preferred to focus there efforts on the to-be-delivered part of the software.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
25 October 14:30 - 15:00
Room: 
Theater Stage
Status: 
Accepted

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Building a commercial-grade IDE for cross-mobile platform development

Session Type: 
Extended Talk [55 minutes]
Speakers
Wouter Roosenburg [Service2Media], Jos Warmer [openmodeling.nl]

Building a product is hard, building a platform is even harder. In this session, we will have a look at the technical and organizational challenges that Service2Media faces while developing an Eclipse-based IDE that supports their cross-mobile solution called M2Active. With M2Active, a developer can create applications for mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Blackbery, J2ME, Windows Phone) using the 'define once, deploy anywhere' principle.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Industrial Grade Modeling with Xtext

Session Type: 
Extended Talk [55 minutes]
Speakers
Christoph Zwicker [Avaloq Evolution AG]

Xtext has spread at an amazing speed throughout the community and has revolutionized the work with DSLs and compilers for many of us. We use our own DSL SDK built upon Xtext to efficiently implement and automatically test large scale solutions comprising more than 50 DSLs used in 50'000 sources. We employ this framework in our Eclipse based IDE used in the development and customization of our banking system.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Advanced

Marrying JEE and OSGi using DSLs

Session Type: 
Extended Talk [55 minutes]
Speakers
Kai Honsel [Avaloq Evolution AG], Christoph Zwicker [Avaloq Evolution AG]

Java EE 6 has eliminated many of the drawbacks of previous Java Enterprise Editions, and is a strong choice regarding Standardization, Performance and Scalability. On the other hand, OSGi as emerging Enterprise standard provides modularization, service-orientation and flexible deployment. Both standards symbiotically complete each other. How could a possible marriage look between the two? And how can the marriage preparations be handled efficiently?

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Why do EMF and Xtext build with Buckminster?

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Dennis Huebner [itemis], Sebastian Zarnekow [itemis]

At first glance it is easy to build Eclipse projects: import them into your workspace and the Eclipse builder takes care of the rest. In the blink of an eye everything is compiled, ready to be exported.  This scales up to hundreds of project. That raises the question why building that very same code base on an integration server has proven to be such a nightmare in the past? Shouldn't that be equally simple? This is where Buckminster comes into the picture.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Eclipse Technology
Experience level: 
Beginner

Product Modeling for SAP Configurators Powered by Eclipse

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Tim Geisler [webXcerpt Software GmbH]

Every SAP ERP and CRM system provides product-configuration technology. Thousands of companies worldwide use this technology to configure product variants in sales and manufacturing. Product models for the SAP configurators consist of a network of related objects like materials, bills of materials, characteristics, and classes as well as dependency code written in special languages. A set of transactions with form-based SAP user interfaces - nearly one for each object type and CRUD operation - is used for maintaining the product models. Changes are directly reflected in the database.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Specifying and transforming interfaces with Franca - based on Xtext/Xtend

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Klaus Birken [Harman Infotainment Division]

Proper handling of interface definitions is key when designing the architecture of large systems. Franca is an open source framework for definition and transformation of software interfaces. The talk will emphasize concepts which distinguish Franca from other IDLs and how Xtext/Xtend helped building those features. A demo will provide some insight of how Franca is applied to build Automotive Infotainment systems.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Building Industry Solutions
Experience level: 
Intermediate

Pushing Xtext to the Limit: Lessons Learned with Building a Complex Declarative DSL

Session Type: 
Standard Talk [25 minutes]
Speakers
Istvan Rath [Budapest University of Technology and Economics], Zoltan Ujhelyi [Budapest University of Technology and Economics]

EMF-IncQuery (http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/modeling.emf.incquery) is a novel query framework for EMF models - soon to be committed to Eclipse.org as a new sub-project under EMFT - with a fully featured query language built on top of the new Xtext/Xtend 2.3 infrastructure. We have chosen Xtext because of its ease of use and high quality features, such as the versatile Xbase expression language. However, as it turned out, building a complex and declarative (non-Java like) DSL poses some unique challenges that push Xtext to the limits of its capabilities.

Schedule info

Status: 
Declined

Audience

Track: 
Eclipse Technology
Experience level: 
Advanced

Seven Languages For The JVM

Session Type: 
Extended Talk [55 minutes]
Speakers
Moritz Eysholdt , Jan Koehnlein [itemis], Holger Schill [Itemis]

Developing domain specific languages (DSLs) for Java has become surprisingly easy! Xtext lets you reuse and embed Java compatible language concepts such as expressions, type references and annotations anywhere in your own language. All you need to do is to describe a grammar and mapping of your DSL concepts to Java. Using these two steps only will already yield a statically typed language with top-notch Eclipse integration.

Schedule info

Time slot: 
24 October 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
Bürgersaal 2
Status: 
Accepted

Audience

Track: 
Eclipse Technology
Experience level: 
Intermediate

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