If you have worked with Xtext, you will know its "Find References" search. All elements pointing to a given target are shown in a search view. In this post, I want to show how you can reuse much of the Xtext infrastructure in order to present your own search results. Read More ...

This post describes a possibility for implementing user choices in Oomph project setups. Read More ...

With parse rule fragments, you may get rid of redundancy in your Xtext grammar, making it easier to maintain and gain even more control over the inferred meta model. Read More ...

While working for itemis, I blogged using the company’s blog infrastructure. When that changed, all my posts vanished. Here, I will revive the posts I consider still interesting and hopefully add new ones. Read More ...

Using ISchedulingRules it is fairly easy to enforce only one job of a certain type to be executed at the same time. Not using rules, you can run as many jobs in parallel as Eclipse allows. But what if you want at most 5 jobs running in parallel in order not to freeze the system...? Read More ...