EMFText is an Eclipse plug-in that allows you to define text syntax for languages described by an Ecore metamodel. EMFText enables developers to define textual Domain Specific Languages quickly and without the need to learn new technologies and concepts.

User Guide

• EMFText User Guide (HTML)
• EMFText User Guide (PDF)

Examples

EMFText Syntax Zoo

Download/Installation

You can install EMFText using the following Eclipse Update Sites:

• http://update.emftext.org/release (current release)
• http://update.emftext.org/trunk (latest build from master)

Sources on GitHub

https://github.com/DevBoost/EMFText

Publication

Florian Heidenreich, Jendrik Johannes, Sven Karol, Mirko Seifert, and Christian Wende.
Derivation and Refinement of Textual Syntax for Models
In Proc. of 5th European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA’09), volume 5562 of LNCS. Springer, 2009. [Authors' version (PDF)] [Original publication at SpringerLink]