Acceleo - Eclipse

I will be speaking at Code Generation 2011 about Obeo Designer, our DSL Studio based on top of Eclipse modeling technologies.I will notably present several customer use cases of graphical workbench dedicated to end-users and how the platform ... [More] flexibility and extensibility allowed us to overcome challenge we faced.Process modelingTemporal specifications modelingSpeaking about obeo designer, we are currently working on the next version, which will include following eclipse project versions :Acceleo 3.1, with ant and maven better support, generators documentation, and syntax coloring configurationEMF Compare 1.2.0, with Filtering capabilities and UML dedicated comparison engineEEF 1.0, with one click generation and EMF/Edit alternativeOn the Viewpoint side, we will use these technologies :The viewpoint specification editor properties will be based on EEFAcceleo 3 queries will be possible with completion and live validation Acceleo 3 queries with live validation in EEF properties [Less]

I announced in my latest message that the syntax highlighting colors of Acceleo would soon be configurable. Well, the preference page has now made its apparition and will definitely be available in the 3.1.0M7 build of Acceleo.If anyone would like to ... [More] contribute, we're still missing import/export capabilities to make these color themes easier to share between Eclipses and colleagues; we'd gladly accept such contributions :). [Less]

I am trying to find how many projects ( not especially hosted on eclipse SCMs ) are using EMF ? I could not find easily this information, so please comment this entry ( bonus point if you provide scm url :) ) thanks !

Things will change For our next release, we want to change the way we consider Acceleo. We have always seen Acceleo as a code generator with a great tooling that we are improving year after year with new features. But this has to stop, we don’t want ... [More] Acceleo to be just a software with a version number that help you with your work, we want to do more than that, we want to be more than that. That’s why, in June we will not release another numbered version of Acceleo with the 3.1 version but instead introduce our first named release. We will shift our current effort on the development of Acceleo in order to build an happiness generator. We don’t want to improve your code anymore, we intend to improve your life on a daily basis. Introducing Acceleo Rainbow Edition With Acceleo Rainbow Edition, we will use the color of the rainbow to help you relax and approach your life with a new perspective. We will now work on a brand new roadmap for this Rainbow Edition. relaxing music integration brand new zen splash screen random compliment generator You can already have a sneak peek at this wonderful Rainbow Edition with the brand new Acceleo Rainbow Editor by grabbing the last build of Acceleo, here. For the newcomers looking for resources about Acceleo, you can find all the informations on our wiki. A revolution at Obeo This new direction is introduced today with Acceleo but we will propagate it on all Obeo softwares in the months to come. Our company will now focus on the creation of relaxation software development in order to propagate peace and happiness all over the world. You can already see a sneak peek of the next Obeo product that will use the colors of the rainbow, Obeo Designer. We hope that you can use this brand new editor in Acceleo to have a time as relaxing as we do when developing our generators. [Less]

We've often had complaints about the default choice of colors we made for the Acceleo template editor :For example, people who like high contrast themes, or who'd rather develop with a white/green font on a black/gray background complained that this ... [More] colors were unusable when using such backgrounds. And since we inherit the background color from the default "text editor background" color, this could give awful results :There were also those that simply didn't like to have "red" text in their code, since this color usually reflect an error of some kind :). As hinted from Stéphane's recent post, we've decided to make these colors customizable in Acceleo 3.1. And even though his "rainbow" theme was a little extreme (just in time for april's fool), it did show a number of the areas that now get individually customizable.We hope to include import/export facilities for these color schemes, and the rainbow scheme will most likely be included along with the default :).I know my editor will more or less look like this (but I kind of find blue-ish themes easy on the eye) :How will be yours? Look forward for the 3.1M7 build for these options :). [Less]

For the next version of Acceleo included in Indigo, we are working on several items, following is a presentation of some of them.Ant and maven easy integrationCurrently you could easily use Acceleo as standalone, but if you need to integrate the ... [More] acceleo compilation or generation in your workflow it's a bit difficult. So we are working on providing ant tasks and better maven support. Documentation of your generatorsWe add documentation capabilities for query, module and template. Documentation will be available on mouse over and during code completions. You have also support of deprecated tag with proper warning in case of use.Improved performancesYou will have the ability to compile modules as binary resources. It will reduce significantly the size of compiled modules and increase the performances. This serialization will be the default one, but it could be modified in the preferences.By the way we organize a BoF this evening about Acceleo, come on to discuss with us ! [Less]

This year again, Eclipse applied as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code. We already have been started to collect ideas, they could be contributed on the wiki. Do not miss GSoC ! It's a great opportunity to see enhancements or new ... [More] features added to your favorite projects. If you are a student, you should consider GSoC as an awesome chance to integrate free and open-source communities by doing (not only using), trust a former student. If you don't know how to get involved, have a look to our contribute page and keep an eye on the timeline.Here are some ideas I added :Acceleo has the ability to profile a generation. It creates a model containing the profiling data, and his able to display it. However it would be nice if we could export this model to a gprof file and reuse existing analysis tools such as the view from the linux tools project. Thanks to its discovery UI modeling package users could very easily discover and install modeling components. However we miss an updated reference example to see how to use together all this technologies.EMF Serialization is extensible and Protocol Buffers is an efficient serialization technology so it could be interesting to see how to combine them. [Less]

hi,just a short warning for all releng people using the latest eclipse 3.7 milestones.due to a wrong tag in the platform, using the regular composite repository is not recommended until bug 340016 is fixed.to be clear, if you use ... [More] http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.7milestones repository and have some troubles, use instead the M6 repository, located here http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.7milestones/S-3.7M6-201103101119 [Less]

Hi,Today, i will not talk about EEF.I am using for a while the b3 aggregator component, which is very powerfull to aggregate p2 repositories in a single place. It could even be used in headless mode, so you can produce an aggregated update site ... [More] inside a continuous server !So i was wondering if i can use it as a mirror application, because i love the editor and its features. i tried to mirror swtbot repository along with helios and eclipse update sites.Unfortunately, it produce only a repository with the last version of the artifacts, so i asked into the b3 newsgroup forum if such a way to do is possible.I searched a bit before posting my question and found several peoples asking for the same problem, and having few answers.I know that Thomas Hallgren ( b3 co-lead ) is replying very quickly into these forums ( not as quickly as ed, though :D ) so i created a feature request into bugzilla, because it was clearlynot a feature b3 supports yet.This morning i was a little surprised to see some comments and propositions to my initial request, sign of an awaiting feature of the community.The interesting thing with such an open source community is that initialy b3 is not intended to do mirroring but build, and ability to propose new features is always possible.Open source make me happy some times :)Thanks thomas and b3 team to be responsive ! [Less]

Hi,I'm proud to announce that EEF is finalist of the Eclipse Community Awards 2011, category Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project. Thanks for all of you for your vote !you can easily see EEF in action there : ... [More] http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/videos/emf-library-in-5-mn.htmyou can also try EEF by downloading the last released version here or by checking for the updates inside your eclipse installation. [Less]