Learn, how to create your own embedded DSL with Xtend. I will demonstrate, how to engage named parameters and even how to do a custom syntax highlighting.

JMockit-Xtend provides a collection of the extension and helper methods to integrate the popular java mocking framework JMockit with Xtend. In this episode I show how to setup a simple java project with Xtend/JMockit and how to test-drive a simple command-line application mocking system methods.

Xtend comes with two new cool control flow features: dispatch and switch. Here I show how to use them to improve the coding.

Template expressions or rich strings provide a convenient way to generate a code snippets. Features: multi-line strings, guillemets based placeholders, conditions, iterations over collections, smart indentation and comments.

This episode shows, how to significantly simplify java BigDecimal expressions using the Xbase operator overloading together with the "bd" number literal.

Introduction to the new Xtend language. A simple peace of java code get converted to the Xtend using type inference, extension methods and closures.