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on October 19, 2020

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Adventures in Xtext -- Modernizing an Eclipse Plugin for the Language Server Protocol (LSP)

The Language Server Protocol (LSP) creates the opportunity to reduce the complexity involved in supporting any programming language in any editor, IDE, or client endpoint. Eclipse Che leverages the LSP to provide an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. The following is the first in a series where we take a deep dive into Xtext, Eclipse, and the LSP, by getting Natural, an Eclipse plugin for Cucumber and JBehave, up and running in the cloud with Eclipse Che. Setting the Stage Our story begins with Natural, the only Cucumber/JBehave editor that can link to and validate matching step definitions in your project live as you type. Created by Roberto Lo Giacco et al., Natural goes above and beyond simple syntax highlighting and formatting to define a formal LL(*) grammar used to generate a Gherkin lexer-parser using ANTLR. Having enjoyed the benefits of this plugin for some years now, and upon encountering a bug in Gro...

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