Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-isis-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-isis-users-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F3A4D0FC for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 07:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 56757 invoked by uid 500); 3 Oct 2012 07:30:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-isis-users-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 56372 invoked by uid 500); 3 Oct 2012 07:30:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact isis-users-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: isis-users@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list isis-users@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 56255 invoked by uid 99); 3 Oct 2012 07:30:44 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:30:44 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.212.47] (HELO mail-vb0-f47.google.com) (209.85.212.47) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:30:36 +0000 Received: by vbbez10 with SMTP id ez10so7564755vbb.6 for ; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:30:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=J15D9mru2b3DF7+tL7rR/itdfBTxO7PtySu8Hi6Lq1s=; b=GpOCFifc7U2k+eieXeUiDu+j4uIYMjdUsn53g/i/uRyNohLeb0gPUlyghqLp1SKebO THsZQR1XTXxJRk+iMzGSDcRgZJAsuqj5vTbUcem7oBp0EyW2FcLd3V29LFlcV1+V3T5/ k3HmVyKq3+/sLnvy6OrKCSbU5zA2QDGj7wwAeiL2LlQOlugyVo8dPSUUoz0ovRu+PoOh iuKPnLnQiZ/rxeBgcBx27c1F5YS7G1GKyTzuNYLGsOnaagbouza8GJArhcHeJiPCPZhu Bf0XpEA4jKNgOBtmF0V3wcnXIYXU/l57hpssJJc93+3Qhj9nR8slNHAw+O3+oaRxi+zH xNww== Received: by 10.52.22.72 with SMTP id b8mr517827vdf.88.1349249415693; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:30:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.147.7 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 00:29:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [87.198.230.91] From: Dan Haywood Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:29:55 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: A DSL for Apache Isis programming? To: isis-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: isis-users@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf307abca722c68b04cb229cf9 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkAcAr2n1kojyQRMremy38be9TL6BVEL1IytiFKjHeztq999soJwfjeYZ2XB3QG0eXsCSe8 --20cf307abca722c68b04cb229cf9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dunno if anyone here is into DSLs, but it seems to me that the Apache Isis programming conventions [1] could be encapsulated quite nicely using a DSL. And if were going to do this (which I'm not, or at least, not yet), then I think I'd start by checking out Eclipse XText [2]. Does this interest anyone? For a bit of fun, if nothing else. Cheers Dan [1] http://incubator.apache.org/isis/IsisCheatSheet.pdf [2] http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/ --20cf307abca722c68b04cb229cf9--