[rules-dev] Xtext and the Rete DSL.

[Mark Proctor]

On 08/11/2010 10:33, Leonardo Gomes wrote:
> I've been using the Rete DSL a lot these days and was thinking that it 
> could be a good idea to provide some Eclipse infra-structure (syntax 
> highlighting, code completion, validation) to it using Xtext 
> (http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/). It's built on top of antlr, so maybe 
> we could even reuse the grammar that we already have. I know that, by 
> default, you should right you grammar using their simplified version.
sure could be intersting.

I'd be careful about doing too much work, as I'm gonna need to see the 
testing framework updated, so that it an unit test the new rete data 
structures I have for collection oriented match.

I'm also wondering if we might be better served using a type safe Scala 
datastructure/dsl....

Mark
>
> Maybe the guys there would also be interested in providing something 
> to Drools. It could be a showcase for them.
>
> Not sure if this also applies to the Eclipse DRL things that we have.
>
> Cheers,
> Leonardo.
>
>
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