Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend

Using the Xtext Buckminster wizard

In this chapter we will use a brand new example DSL project to demonstrate the building and releasing mechanisms (of course, the same mechanisms can be applied to an existing DSL as well):

1. Go to File | New | Project..., in the dialog, navigate to the Xtext category and select Xtext Project.
2. In the next dialog you should specify the following names:
   • Project name: org.example.build.hello
   • Name: org.example.build.hello.Hello
   • Extensions: hello
   • Check the option Create SDK feature project (this option must be checked for this example to work)

The wizard will create four projects in the workspace and it will open the file Hello.xtext.

We will use this example only for building and releasing, thus, we are not interested in the ...