Within the VERDE project, itemis is working on the traceability of requirements based on the Eclipse platform. To be able to work with requirements, we have implemented an Ecore representation of the RIF/ReqIF requirements exchange format. RIF was developed by the German HIS Automotive and is now being standardized by the OMG under the new [...]

Xtext 1.0.0 is scheduled for the Helios release and while I think that it is a great tool we shouldn’t miss the other apects of a toolchain that are crucial for MDSD: M2T, especially code generation. It is only with M2M and M2T that models show their full potential, since we can use automation. The [...]

The Papyrus team are doing a great job integrating Textual DSLs with graphical modelings. I am happy that we could help them a bit in integrating Xtext with their modeling tool. The combination solves several usability glitches that I hated in all modeling tools: Adding attributes through a property sheet is cumbersome. I have created [...]