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Difference between JVMInferrer and Generator [message #1041952]

Mon, 15 April 2013 20:18

Leandro Marques

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Registered: July 2009

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Hello everyone,

I use to work with a previous version of Xtext which did not work with JvmModelInferrer. For nor on I am using Xtext 2.4 and when I execute the "generate Xtext artifacts", no generator class is created anymore. Are we supposed to work with and ModelInferrer and no more Generator?

What is the difference between then?

I searched in different tutorials, but many of them still refer to a generator if you want to transform you DSL code to Java, for example.

Thanks in advance,

Leandro Nascimento
PhD student

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Re: Difference between JVMInferrer and Generator [message #1042474 is a reply to message #1041952]

Tue, 16 April 2013 13:29

Christian Dietrich

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Hi the jvmmodelgenerator is used when you use base. You may simply
subclass it

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Re: Difference between JVMInferrer and Generator [message #1042490 is a reply to message #1042474]

Tue, 16 April 2013 13:46

Leandro Marques

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But let me understand it better: is it possible to generate .java code using the Model Inferrer as well as the regular generator does?

Tks

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Re: Difference between JVMInferrer and Generator [message #1042498 is a reply to message #1042490]

Tue, 16 April 2013 13:57

Christian Dietrich

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Yes

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