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Xtext UI project vs Xtext Ide project [message #1765517]

Sun, 11 June 2017 20:50

Santhosh Kumar

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Registered: March 2011

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Can somebody explain what does <somedsl>.ui project and <somedsl>.ide project does?

Looking into the details of .ide project, there is not much in it. I was assuming IDE is UI related so all of its stuff should be in UI.

Thanks for the response.

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Re: Xtext UI project vs Xtext Ide project [message #1765520 is a reply to message #1765517]

Sun, 11 June 2017 22:06

Ori Roth

Messages: 2
Registered: June 2017

Junior Member

From this tutorial:

org.example.domainmodel.ide 	Platform-independent IDE functionality (e.g. services for content assist)
org.example.domainmodel.ui 	The Eclipse editor and other workbench related functionality

The "ui" project is a complete Eclipse plugin that contributes an Eclipse editor for your DSL. Users that installed this plugin may program in your language enjoying syntax coloring, auto-completion, errors/warnings etc. (last picture in the tutorial).
About the "ide" project: I am not really sure, but it does not seem like something you can use out of the box. It contains basic parsing and content assist tools so miscellaneous IDEs that support Xtext would be able to register your DSL.

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Re: Xtext UI project vs Xtext Ide project [message #1765524 is a reply to message #1765517]

Mon, 12 June 2017 03:09

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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The ide project was introduced to host platform (eclipse) independent ide stuff e.g. To support language server protocol, Xtext in the web, Xtext in idea (obsolete) etc

So if you target eclipse only that's fine

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