Texo what’s Next
Hi,
After a long time since my last blog post on Texo it is time to get back. So what’s next for Texo!
The first main thing is Xcore support. It is something requested often by several users. I am almost done with it, so should be there shortly. An interesting next xcore-step is to see if it is possible to integrate the Texo annotations models into the Xcore editor. This so that people don’t need to maintain a separate annotations model.
Another technology I have worked with the past years is Mondrian, it can be interesting to see what/if Texo (runtime) can be integrated with Mondrian.
Recently I have gotten quite interested in micro-service architectures because of their elegant scalability and robustness capabilities and nice decomposition approach. I have some research topics/questions I would like to explore here, further developing Texo in the direction of a micro-service architecture. This is for me probably one of the most interesting areas for 2015!
Related to micro-service architectures is the topic of no-sql datastores. No-sql datastores are better (than relational stores) in supporting distributed data storage, making them suited for micro-service architectures. Would be nice to extend Texo to support different no-sql databases.
A long (really long) while back I had a chat with people from the EMF Client Platform. It is very interesting to make the Texo runtime layer suitable as a ECP persistence backend, there seems to be a perfect fit there!
Having said the above, my plan for this year is to get to an official release and real version 1.0, and then participate in the subsequent official Eclipse release.
I am also very interested in working with others who want to collaborate and contribute. Texo can be split in 2 main parts: generation and runtime behavior providing JSON/XML webservices. Both interesting areas to contribute to. I mentioned several topics above, but other ideas are also welcome! Feel free to contact me directly if you want to participate (mtaal_at_elver.org).
Thanks for reading and I hope this blog post helps to give Texo a try and possibiy contribute. Visit the Texo wiki for more information. Let me know if you have any questions or remarks on the EMFT newsgroup or forum!
gr. Martin
Hi Martin, thanks for sharing this update, and fore-mostly, I really hope that your son is progressing well. This above all else is of most importance. Thanks for the work you do. Texo is a really exciting and useful project.
Kind regards,
Anton Hughes
Anton Hughes
December 28, 2014 at 1:17 am
Hi Martin, All the best for your son!
Eike Stepper
December 28, 2014 at 8:08 am
Thanks Eike and Anton, appreciate it!
martintaal
December 28, 2014 at 9:42 pm
All the best for your son and your family, Martin!
Erdal Karaca
December 28, 2014 at 9:43 pm
Thanks Erdal!
martintaal
December 31, 2014 at 7:19 am
Hello Martin, I hope your son is getting better.
I just wanted to point out that the Text link to the wiki fails to display the page, I have :
LocalSettings.php not readable.
Please correct file permissions and try again.
All the best.
Sebastien Foo
December 30, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Hi Sebastian,
I tried all the links and they work with me, which specific link did you try and can you try again?
gr. Martin
martintaal
December 31, 2014 at 7:18 am
Hi Martin, everything is working fine now, there may have been a problem on the Eclipse server.
Thank for the answer.
Sebastien Foo
December 31, 2014 at 9:37 am