Acceleo - Eclipse

Want to know how we tackle collaborative modeling @ Obeo ? Want to see live demos of consistent optimistic or painless pessimistic strategies ? Want to see more of what is going on mixing Mylyn and EMF/GEF/GMF ? Want to see live collaborative UI ... [More] based on CDO/Dawn ?Benjamin Muskalla (Tasktop), Martin Fluegge and I did prepare something for you.All you have to do is to vote for this talk and come to EclipseCon Europe ! [Less]

This year, I will try to present two talks to EclipseCon Europe about the Extended Editing Framework (EEF) and more generally Eclipse Modeling : Scientific application redesign in oil industry with Eclipse Modeling and 25 min to take care of your ... [More] end users with EEF!. Scientific application redesign in oil industry with Eclipse Modeling This first talk deals with a work we made with IFP energies nouvelles (IFPEN) for redesign a part of its platform OpenFlow. IFPEN develops and provides a platform aiming at creating scientific softwares for oil production industry. This platform offers several services like tools helping creation of graphical user interfaces or a communication framework to send data to supercomputers. The communication part of the suite is fully operational but can be really improved, mainly in the way the communications are described. The work with IFPEN was to create a communication designer with EcoreTools and to generate all the communication layer of the IFPEN platform with Acceleo 3. For this talk, I will be assisted by two persons of IFPEN and we will show you : The different elements of Eclipse Modeling we used to made this redesignA demonstration of the final Communication DesignerAnd a demonstration of a second tool we made to create automatically GUI with EEF 25 min to take care of your end users with EEF! The second talk I proposed is more EEF-centric. EEF has reached its version 1.0 and is no longer in incubation. The two years in incubation allowed the framework to be more and more robust and to be a real candidate to become the EMF.edit framework version 2.0! I will try to focus this talk on a tutorial aspect to enable people attending the presentation to use EEF immediatly on their own use cases. The talk will start with a short introduction of the project and will be followed by a first tutorial to get good looking properties view for a given metamodel defined with Ecore. After a short presentation of the different kinds of generable GUI with EEF, a second tutorial will show how to create very usable form editors with the extension part of EEF. I hope this description of the talks I've submitted around EEF convinced you and make you want to come to this wonderful event that is Europe EclipseCon ! [Less]

This year, I will try to present two talks to EclipseCon Europe about the Extended Editing Framework (EEF) and more generally Eclipse Modeling : Scientific application redesign in oil industry with Eclipse Modeling and 25 min to take care of your ... [More] end users with EEF!. Scientific application redesign in oil industry with Eclipse Modeling This first talk deals with a work we made with IFP energies nouvelles (IFPEN) for redesign a part of its platform OpenFlow. IFPEN develops and provides a platform aiming at creating scientific softwares for oil production industry. This platform offers several services like tools helping creation of graphical user interfaces or a communication framework to send data to supercomputers. The communication part of the suite is fully operational but can be really improved, mainly in the way the communications are described. The work with IFPEN was to create a communication designer with EcoreTools and to generate all the communication layer of the IFPEN platform with Acceleo 3. For this talk, I will be assisted by two persons of IFPEN and we will show you : The different elements of Eclipse Modeling we used to made this redesign A demonstration of the final Communication Designer And a demonstration of a second tool we made to create automatically GUI with EEF 25 min to take care of your end users with EEF! The second talk I proposed is more EEF-centric. EEF has reached its version 1.0 and is no longer in incubation. The two years in incubation allowed the framework to be more and more robust and to be a real candidate to become the EMF.edit framework version 2.0! I will try to focus this talk on a tutorial aspect to enable people attending the presentation to use EEF immediatly on their own use cases. The talk will start with a short introduction of the project and will be followed by a first tutorial to get good looking properties view for a given metamodel defined with Ecore. After a short presentation of the different kinds of generable GUI with EEF, a second tutorial will show how to create very usable form editors with the extension part of EEF. I hope this description of the talks I've submitted around EEF convinced you and make you want to come to this wonderful event that is Europe EclipseCon ! [Less]

EMF Compare, or how to provide meaningful comparison algorithms and visualization for models. Comparing the models' XMI serializations as text is a chore that we should never have to go back to, and EMF Compare has always strived at doing the best ... [More] possible job towards that end. Who would rather compare their models textually : Than compare them logically (yes, these are the same models as above) : However, EMF Compare still had issues with most algorithm : small errors when matching elements together, differences that weren't detected ... and worst of all : merging all diffs from one side to the other rarely gave the expected result of "two identical models", i.e : if the comparison process in itself was working fairly well, we had a huge number of failures when merging. We've decided to tackle this problem the way we should have from the very start : list all potential differences that can be observed between two models ... and create the corresponding unit test! The results are already showing. True, we are still missing a number of unit tests in order to test all potential use cases we can list ... but we've already fixed an incredible number of bugs be they known (half of our opened bugs, forty-ish out of eighty or so) or bugs we had never detected before. The number of unit tests talks for itself : That's 4000 unit tests and as many different combinations of differences added and fixed in the past weeks. I won't lie, some of these tests are redundant because of the way we decided to work : we are not trying to cover code, but rather cover use cases; which means some of these tests overlap with others. This does mean, however, that we are fairly sure we'll never have regressions on things that are tested :). And now, back to the last few tests we are still missing! [Less]

Hi, Indigo is just arrived, but we are working hard for the next EEF versions. I just finished to move the build from buckminster to tycho, it is very easy to do, thanks to everyone involved ! I am able to build an updatesite with automatically ... [More] compiled modules. This is not the only thing we are working on. Among other things : Improve import generation, better handling of event ( no more unecessary dirty states), and many bugfixes ! You may also know that we have successfully passed our graduation review, so we will soon move from EMFT to EMF. Finally, we plan also to move from CVS to Git for next release. Stay tuned ! [Less]

Since more than one year, I have heard about the AltaRica language provided by the LaBRI. AltaRica is a language designed to model both functional and dysfunctional behaviors of critical systems. AltaRica provides a syntax and a set of ... [More] model-checkers like ARC that allows to analyze the set of reachable configurations of a concurrent system from an initial state for example. This language has a formal semantic and seems quite easy to learn and to use !However, I haven't found a free plug and play editor for a beginner (as me) with auto-completion and error detection. I have thus implemented, during my spare time, a textual AltaRica Eclipse-based editor in a first version.My motivation are : to learn the langage  to be able to use this langage with the Eclipse Modeling Framework. In fact, if I succeed, the AltaRica model and all other models used during my critical systems developments (SysML, UML, EventB, Requirements, traceability) will be managed by the same common modelling framework. It will thus facilitate the interroperability !  to learn the Eclipse-Based xText technology for which you can describe the AltaRica grammar and generate the Eclipse-integrated textual editor. An extract from the xText AltaRica grammar After several hours, I succeed in providing my first AltaRica editor with auto completion and error detection. For sample, I can edit the counter example delivered with ARC and compile this sample. A simple counter from 0 to 10. The counter can be incremented by     one unit using inc event or by two units using inc2 event. Syntax error detection Completion proposals The ARC compilation results when asking all the path to get count >=3 The ARC console is not yet integrated in Eclipse because I don't know if someone else could be interested either in using or in contributing to this editor. Please, feel free to contact me if you are interesting ! [Less]

Since more than one year, I have heard about the AltaRica language provided by the LaBRI. AltaRica is a language designed to model both functional and dysfunctional behaviors of critical systems. AltaRica provides a syntax and a set of ... [More] model-checkers like ARC that allows to analyze the set of reachable configurations of a concurrent system from an initial state for example. This language has a formal semantic and seems quite easy to learn and to use ! However, I haven't found a free plug and play editor for a beginner (as me) with auto-completion and error detection. I have thus implemented, during my spare time, a textual AltaRica Eclipse editor in a first version.My motivation are :to learn the langage to be able to use this langage with the Eclipse Modeling Framework. In fact, if I succeed, the AltaRica model and all other models used during my critical systems developments (SysML, UML, EventB, Requirements, traceability) will be managed by the same common modelling framework. It will thus facilitate the interroperability ! to learn the Eclipse-Based xText technology for which you can describe the AltaRica grammar and generate the Eclipse-integrated textual editor.An extract from the xText AltaRica grammar After several hours, I succeed in providing my first AltaRica editor with auto completion and error detection. For sample, I can edit the counter example delivered with ARC and compile this sample.A simple counter from 0 to 10. The counter can be incremented by     one unit using inc event or by two units using inc2 event.Syntax error detectionCompletion proposalsThe ARC compilation results when asking all the path to get count >=3 The ARC console is not yet integrated in Eclipse because I don't know if someone else could be interested either in using or in contributing to this AltaRica Eclipse Editor. Please, feel free to contact me either by comments or emails if you are interesting ! [Less]

Acceleo 3.1 has been released yesterday as part of the Eclipse 3.7 Indigo release train. So let’s have a look at some of the new features available in this release. Language improvements Support for documentation for templates, queries and modules. ... [More] Support for TODO and FIXME Tooling improvements Improved real time error detections with new errors detected and warning support. Brand new wizard for the creation of new projects and new modules. Documentation in completion and hover Improved outline view with new actions to filter and sort templates and queries. Improved support for metamodels that have not been deployed in a plugin. New refactoring options (extract as query, pull up, generate documentation…) Acceleo runtime available as an Eclipse library for all Java projects. New preference menu to customize the colors of the Acceleo editor and to activate/deactivate some options of the generation. Better Ant and Maven support Acceleo 3.0 generates the necessary Ant file to compile an Acceleo project thanks to the PDE build system. Now Acceleo 3.1 adds on top of this, two Ant files for the compilation and the launch of an Acceleo generation out of Eclipse. We are also introducing the generation of the pom.xml for a tycho/maven based build of Acceleo projects. New serialization option Support of binary resource serialization for Acceleo modules. With this new option, you will be able to reduce the size of your Acceleo generators and improve their loading time. For those who want to know more about Acceleo, you can find more information on the Obeo Network or you can follow me on twitter. [Less]

Next week the second edition on the Eclipse DemoCamp will take place at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes.Even if Nantes is specialized in Eclipse modeling technologies, we have this year an existing program with a good mix of modeling and non-modeling ... [More] talks.6:15PM - 6:35PM: MoDisco & ATL (AtlanMod)6:35PM - 6:55PM: EMF Facet (Mia-Software)6:55PM - 7:15PM: EEF (Goulwen Le Fur, Obeo)7:45PM - 8:05PM: Memory Analyzer (Zenika)8:05PM - 8:25PM: Tycho (Pod Programming)8:25PM - 8:45PM: EGit (Obeo)8:45PM - 9:00PM: General Questions & Wrap-upIf you want to attend, please update the wiki page or contact me:http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Indigo_2011/Nantes [Less]

Next week the second edition on the Eclipse DemoCamp will take place at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes.Even if Nantes is specialized in Eclipse modeling technologies, we have this year an existing program with a good mix of modeling and non-modeling ... [More] talks.6:15PM - 6:35PM: MoDisco & ATL (AtlanMod)6:35PM - 6:55PM: EMF Facet (Mia-Software)6:55PM - 7:15PM: EEF (Goulwen Le Fur, Obeo)7:45PM - 8:05PM: Memory Analyzer (Zenika)8:05PM - 8:25PM: Tycho (Pod Programming)8:25PM - 8:45PM: EGit (Obeo)8:45PM - 9:00PM: General Questions & Wrap-upIf you want to attend, please update the wiki page or contact me:http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Indigo_2011/Nantes [Less]