Updates

2013-09-27 -- PhD thesis about Simpl published

Margus Freudenthal's PhD thesis describes the architecture of Simpl and the rationale behind it's design choices.

Margus Freudenthal. Simpl: A toolkit for domain-specific language development in enterprise information systems. PhD thesis, University of Tartu, 2013.

Full text in PDF

2013-07-13 -- Simpl 1.4.0 released.

  • Upgraded to Scala 2.9.3.
  • Upgraded to Eclipse 3.7.
  • Added support for Kiama language processing library.
  • Added some new examples.
  • Minor enhancements and bug fixes.

2012-02-09 -- Simpl 1.3.0 released.

  • Added pretty-printing library that can be used for code generation.
  • Added include directive that can be used to spread the grammar in several files.
  • Other minor enhancements.

2011-09-09 -- Simpl 1.2.0 released.

  • Same attribute name can now be used several times in the same rule. The result is that the attribute will contain list of nodes.
  • Several smaller bugfixes. See issues list for more detailed info.

2011-03-14 -- Simpl 1.1.2 released.

Several smaller bugfixes. See issues list for more detailed info.

2011-01-31 -- Simpl 1.1.1 released.

  • Added PUF example that demonstrates how to use Simpl to process more complex languages.
  • Added PrettyPrint object that can be used to pretty-print abstract syntax tree.

2011-01-24 -- Simpl 1.1.0 released.

  • Many smaller bugfixes.
  • Upgraded to Scala 2.8.1 and ANTLR 3.3
  • Refactored API for adding images to outline view. Image loading is now done via YourLanguageConfig.initializeImages method. See the user's guide and fowler-example (or a wizard-generated project) for details.
  • Minor other API improvements.
Several additions to the grammar specification language:
  • Added options keyword that can be used to specify ANTLR options. Mostly useful for turing on backtracking.
  • Grammar rules can now specify return type and/or return code expression. See user manual for more details.

2010-09-16 -- Simpl 1.0.1 bugfix release. The syntax colouring preferences window now works (for all DSLs). Note: making use of this change requires adding YourLangPreferenceInitializer class to project.xml and YourLangServices.scala files. See wizard's templates for examples.

2010-09-06 -- Simpl 1.0.0 released.