How to use MPS Server with 24 lines of gradle

[ftomassetti]

Hi,
Recently I have been working on making easier to use the MPS Server. For that I created a gradle plugin.

Now, the MPS Server per-se permits to expose the models of a running MPS through REST APIs and WebSockets. You can use it to get the information of your models and create some visualization or even modifying your models in a web application. If you want to build editors on top of it you can use WebEditKit, the companion project of MPS Server.

This is a short demo:

And this is the build.gradle you need:

	buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://projects.itemis.de/nexus/content/repositories/mbeddr' }
    }
}

plugins {
    id 'com.strumenta.mpsserver' version "0.1.0-snapshot"
}

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
	maven {
		url 'https://dl.bintray.com/strumenta/strumenta-oss-maven'
	}
	maven {
		url 'https://projects.itemis.de/nexus/content/groups/OS/'
	}
}

mpsserver {
	mpsServerVersion = '1.1.0-rc1'
}

At this point, you can run ./gradlew launchMpsServer and that is it!

For example, this is what you could get: