XabslEditor is a graphical editor for the “Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language” XABSL (see publication below). It is implemented in Java and should run on every platform that supports Java (Windows, Linux, Mac, …)

Source code and download

https://github.com/BerlinUnited/xabsleditor

List of the most important functions

• running on all platforms (since it is written in Java)
• its open source (all used components are open source to)
• syntax highlighting
• live view of the state graph
• auto completion:
  • completion of symbols with parameters and enums
  • live documentation (generated from comments)
• live syntax check (errors are red underlined, without of recompiling of the whole project)
• tabs
• jump to definition (a click on an used option opens the file were the option is defined)
• build in compiler (ruby has not to be necessary installed)
• search (in files and in the whole project)
• unlimited undo/redo

Publications:

• M. Lötzsch, M. Risler, and M. Jüngel, “Xabsl – a pragmatic approach to behavior engineering,” in Proceedings of ieee/rsj international conference of intelligent robots and systems (iros), Beijing, China, 2006, pp. 5124-5129.
  [Bibtex]

  @InProceedings{2006:IROSLoetzschRislerJuengel,
  author = {M. L\"otzsch and M. Risler and M. J\"ungel},
  title = {XABSL - A Pragmatic Approach to Behavior Engineering},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2006},
  pages = {5124-5129},
  address = {Beijing, China},
  month = {October 9-15},
  }

Previous Versions

• Old Project page and download of previous releases: https://launchpad.net/xabsleditor
• Old version Java Webstart Demo (XABSL compiler not included)