Release Date
Deliverables
The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:
- Xtext SDK (includes runtime and tooling components, with sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
- Xtext runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
- Xtext tests (downloadable and update site)
- Xbase SDK (includes a reusable expression langauge implemented in Xtext, with sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
- Xbase runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
- Xbase tests (downloadable and update site)
- Xtend2 SDK (a domein-specific language for customizing all aspects of Xtext. Built with Xtext and based on Xbase. Includes runtime and tooling components, with sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
- Xtend2 runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
- Xtend2 tests (downloadable and update site)
Compatibility
Version 2.0 will not be compatible with the Xtext version 1.0. However there will be a migration guide available by end of June.
Target Environments
In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments. The Xtext project depends upon on the 3.5 (Galileo) release of the Eclipse Platform and other projects, and targets to run on version 1.5 of the Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition.
Themes
Reusability
Xbase is a sophisticated language library, providing the power of full-blown expressions to any Xtext-based langauge targeting the Java platform. Xtext eats its own dog-food and comes with a new compiler language called Xtend2, which is itself implmentd in Xtext and based on Xbase.
Increase Applicability
One of our guiding principles is "make common things easier and rare things possible" suggests that we focus on extensibility as well as on simplicity with regards to all kinds of API. In Helios we want to allow Xtext to be used in more situations by providing an easy to reuse base language.
Performance and Scalability
Performance and scalability needs to be further enforced.
Clean Code
Keeping the quality of code high is key for long lasting software systems. We want to further keep our code clean, which means doing things like removing dead code, cleaning up / rewriting code we do no longer understand, avoiding redundancy, etc..
Eclipse 4.1
We do not explicitly test against 4.1.
This release is part of Indigo