BETA.Eclipse

Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) is an extensible IDE platform. This project extends Eclipse with a BETA IDE.

Since a powerfull BETA IDE (the MjølnerTool) exists, the integration process is mostly concerned with language interoperability - reusing the exisisting BETA code in the Eclipse Java framework.

The MjølnerTool supports (see Mjolner System for reference):

• Semantic editing
• Indentation of BETA code
• Has a graphical interface builder,
• UML editing
• Debugging
• Post-mortem debugging
• ...

The interoperability between Java and BETA is done by compiling the BETA code to Java bytecodes and thereby allowing BETA patterns to be extended by Java classes, Java classes to be extended by BETA patterns, referencing Java objects from BETA and vice versa. This allows for a tight integration of the BETA code into Eclipse.

The features of the BETA IDE are as follows:

• The BETA editor activates on .bet files
• Indentation of BETA code by pressing the TAB key
• Couloring of BETA keywords
• An outline view of the BETA code
• A BETA compiler with a console view, showing the compiler output
• Marking of compiler errors in the code
• Executing the compiled BETA code
• Debugging of the BETA code
• Goto declaration - from name usage goto the declaration

Download and install the BETA IDE plug-in from here.

Related Papers:

• Object oriented language interoperability - a case study of BETA in Eclipse
• Integration of BETA with Eclipse - an exercise in language interoperability
• Implementing BETA on Java Virtual Machine and .NET

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