The complete guide to (external) Domain Specific Languages

This guide will show you: the what: after a definition we will look into 19 examples of DSLs the why:…

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Spring Integration MongoDB adapters with Java DSL

1 Introduction This post explains how to save and retrieve entities from a MongoDB database using Spring Integration. In order…

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How to create an editor with syntax highlighting for your language using ANTLR and Kotlin

What we are going to build In this post we are going to see how to build a standalone editor…

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Create UML diagrams with simple DSL – PlantUML

Historically I disliked creating design UML diagrams, because the tooling for it mostly requires drawing boxes and connecting them with…

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Typesafe Kubernetes-manifest DSL for JVM-based apps

Managing a cluster of Docker/Rocket containers (or anything) in a production environment is rife with distributed-systems challenges. Luckily, a compelling…

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Do Not Create DSL for the Customer

Domain Specific Language (DSL) solutions are many times created with the intent to give a tool to the hands of…

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Develop DSLs for Eclipse and IntelliJ using Xtext

In this post we are going to see how to develop a simple language. We will aim to get: a…

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Creating a DSL for AWT’s Robot

The Java SDK ships with the class java.awt.Robot that allows the automation of keyboard and mouse input as well as…

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RabbitMQ – Processing messages serially using Spring integration Java DSL

If you ever have a need to process messages serially with RabbitMQ with a cluster of listeners processing the messages,…

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