Leveraging Theia’s customizability for creating domain specific tools - Philip Langer
14Theia is a platform for building IDEs and tools. Quite naturally it best supported textual editing for source coding initially. However, due to its vast extensibility, Theia is also very well suited for other use cases, especially for building domain-specific modeling tools. Such tools often present and edit structured data in trees, forms and diagrams and rely on model-specific capabilities, such as model validation, analysis and simulation, model comparison and merging, and code generation. In this talk, we show how to leverage the extensibility of Theia to address such domain-specific requirements and provide a live demonstration of the result. To do so, we explain how to integrate various technologies into Theia including Xtext, Xtend, CDT, EMF, EMF Compare, EMF.cloud, Eclipse GLSP and D3, as well as how they can be seamlessly connected into a domain-specific modeling tool that supports the workflows of domain experts.
The demos will be available in a cloud-based hosting for the audience to try themselves during and after the talk. Let us unleash the full potential of Theia for tools beyond text!