Summary
In this chapter we described scoping, which is the main mechanism behind visibility and cross-reference resolution. In particular, scoping and typing are often strictly connected and interdependent especially for object-oriented languages. We described both local and global scoping and we showed how to customize these mechanisms using the SmallJava DSL as a case study.
In the next chapter we will show how you can create a p2 repository for your DSL implementation; this way, other users can easily install it in Eclipse. Xtext provides a wizard that creates the entire infrastructure to build a p2 repository with Buckminster, an Eclipse project for automatic building.
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