Xtext Editor for EAST-ADL

This repository contains an Xtext-based editor for a textual concrete syntax of the EAST-ADL meta-model. The editor is used to explore what a textual syntax for EAST-ADL can look like and how the existing Eclipse infrastructure can be used to create a blended modelling environment for EAST-ADL which blends textual, graphical, and tree-based editors.

Installation and Usage

1. Download the code of projects

   1. Paste the link https://github.com/blended-modeling/eatxt into the browser and open the page.
   2. Log into a Github account which has been invited to the project.
   3. Open a terminal/shell and navigate to a folder where you would like to store the project locally.
   4. Type git clone https://github.com/blended-modeling/eatxt. The source code will now be cloned in the sub-folder eatxt.

2. Open the code in Eclipse

   1. If you do not have Eclipse installed on your system, download an Eclipse RCP from https://eclipse.org/download and install it.
   2. Start Eclipse and select a suitable workspace. We recommend creating a new one.
   3. In the File menu, choose Import...
   4. Select Existing projects into workspace
   5. Select the folder into which you cloned the source code

3. Install Xtext

   1. In the Help menu, select Eclipse Marketplace
   2. Search "xtext" and then install it
   3. Once finished installing, restart the Eclipse IDE

4. Reload the target definition

   1. Find the project "org.bumble.eatxt.target"
   2. Double click on the file "org.bumble.eatxt.target.target" to open it in the target definition editor.
   3. In the right-top corner, click "Set as Active Target Platform"

   This can take a couple of minutes. Afterwards, all compilation errors should have disappeared.

5. Generate the EAText editor

   1. Open the project src/org.bumble.eatxt folder in the org.bumble.eatxt project.
   2. Right click on the .mwe2 file and choose Run As -> MWE2 workflow from the context menu.

6. Use the EAText editor.

   1. Find the project org.bumble.eatxt.
   2. Right click on it and select Run As -> Eclipse Application in the context menu. A new Eclipse RCP instance starts.
   3. click Create a project or File -> Project and create a generic project.
   4. Create a new file with the extension .eatxt in the new project. On double click, it opens in the EAText editor.
   5. Alternatively, import the org.bumble.eatxt.example project into your runtime Eclipse RCP and use one of the files there.