I just received the final version of DSLs in Action, a book I reviewed for Manning. The author included in this version an example regarding Xtext, probably I was not the only one to suggest it. Now I am writing a short review to post on Amazon. In my opinion the part on internal DSLs […]

I am taking a rest after some hours of work. I used the javassist library to extract information from the code of a layer in an enterprise application and use it to build a model to generate the successive layer. I wish I could extract some of the information using generics but the infamous “Java […]

Today I presented some thoughts about state-of-art in model driven development to the professor mentoring me (Marco Torchiano) for my thesis and the company interested in its outputs (Trim). It took me almost two hours to illustrate concrete and philosopical differences across WebRatio, Acceleo (the standalone version, not the one integrated in Eclipse Modelling) and […]