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October 22, 2011

Modeling Symposium


In previous years, the Modeling Symposium at Eclipse meetings in Europe attracted a large panel of attendees interested in sharing their ideas and in learning about the projects of others in the community. At the last event, we had fifteen interesting presentations and the room was full.




This year, there is no session planned for the symposium, so it will take place during a BoF on


Thursday, November 3rd
at 19:00 

If you are interested to show a demo, exchange ideas, or gather feedback about a proposal, please contact us with a short description about what you would like to talk. We hope being able to announce an exciting agenda.

October 21, 2011

Collaborative modeling, the new deal

 I already blogged about collaborative modeling but I would like to stand back from the previous post, which was very technical, and introduce the talk I will present with Martin and Benjamin at EclipseCon Europe.

Since several years now the Eclipse modeling platform provides useful tools which have help to democratize the use of modeling technologies. However those tools have raised issues linked to collaboration we start to better address.





To visualize and edit models in a graphical manner diagrams are often used. However  usually diagramming technologies do not scale well and this is problematic as the more the models and their complexity grow the more one wants to work in group.







When you model with other people, one of the difficulty is to understand reasons behind their choices and design. Document them is of course necessary but the main difficulty is to keep documentation accurate across refactorings and changes.

In fact, often the more the time flies by, the more we lost the intention, documentation being seen as a post-design step.





Collaborate means dealing with concurrent accesses. To enable them you have two strategies. One is to prevent conflicts either through models splitting or with locks. But models splitting is not well supported by tools and coarse-grained locks are not pratical.





The other strategy is to allows conflict happens and deals with them when they occurs. It looks like a dice game, and depending on the frequency, it could become hard to deal with conflicts.



Interested by the subject ? Come to the talk to discover what are the available technologies to address those concerns, and understand why collaboration matters in modeling.

October 10, 2011

Acceleo 3.2


 To celebrate the historic victory of the french rugby team in the world cup quarter final, the Acceleo team is proud to announce its 3.2 release very soon.

Photo from NikRugby23
 


  • We tackled performance problems in compilation. Acceleo is now as fast as Vincent Clerc, and even if you totally don't know who he is, you will appreciate the better reactivity of the tool.  


  • We provide a new useful view to test Acceleo and OCL expressions on the fly, the Acceleo interpreter. You will find more details and example of usage of the interpreter in the Laurent's blog entry.

Screenshot of Acceleo Interpreter


Want to join the scrum  ? You could install a release candidate and give us feedback before the final release planned for October 24th.