- Xtext 2.1 by Sven Efftinge
- OCL by Ed Willlink
Slides are also available.
- Acceleo Interpreter by Stéphane Bégaudeau
- EMF-IncQuery by István Ráth
- EMF Store Demo by Maximilian Koegel
- EMF Profiles by Hugo Brunelière
- MPS by Markus Völter
- EMF Compare by Mikael Barbero
- EEF alternative generation by Goulwen Le Fur
- GMF Tooling revival by Mariot Chauvin
Showing posts with label EEF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EEF. Show all posts
November 8, 2011
Modeling Symposium @ EclipseCon Europe 2011
The modeling symposium at EclipseCon Europe 2011 was really nice with several talks on various topics related to modeling. I would like to thank all presenters and particularly István who filmed all presentations with his smartphone.
April 27, 2011
Obeo Designer @ Code generation 2011
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 flexibility and extensibility allowed us to overcome challenge we faced.
Process modeling
Temporal specifications modeling
Speaking 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 configuration
- EMF Compare 1.2.0, with Filtering capabilities and UML dedicated comparison engine
- EEF 1.0, with one click generation and EMF/Edit alternative
On the Viewpoint side, we will use these technologies :
- The viewpoint specification editor properties will be based on EEF
- Acceleo 3 queries will be possible with completion and live validation
Acceleo 3 queries with live validation in EEF properties
March 11, 2011
Graphical modeling @ EclipseCon 2011
If your read this blog entry, you probably already heard about EMF, but you may still wondering how modeling and all this meta stuffs could help you in your daily developer work.
If you are in this case, then you have to attend to the EMF tutorial for at the next EclipseCon. In the first part you will have time to discover the basics of EMF on a case sudy. In the second part you will have an overview of additional powerful technologies, such as EEF and GMF, 2 projects I will present related to being able to create and modify a model in a graphical manner.
EEF is a tool which enables one to generate sexy properties, but not only. It's a framework, which could be use to generate several kinds of user interface to edit your model.
It has been designed to be compatible with validation and transaction existing EMF components. Let's have a look to to see how you could easily generate an eclipse form editor in one click from your metamodel.
Even EEF if is a quite young project, it is already used in the industry and arouses interest with frequent questions on the newsgroup.
By the way EEF has been nominated and is finalist for the eclipse community award 2001 in the most innovative project category.
GMF is a project dedicated to the creation of diagram editors. It is split in 2 components, the runtime and the tooling.
The runtime connects GEF and EMF. It plugs your EMF model as the model in the GEF model-view-controler architecture and provides a diagram metamodel.
The tooling enables you to generate an editor based on the runtime.
The runtime has been designed for extensibility, you could extend it or redefine some parts very simply.
The tooling uses code templates, that you could extend to generate custom code. This enables you to keep your GMF models and the generated code always synchronized.
That's all for this EEF and GMF preview, if you want to know more, come to the tutorial !
If you are in this case, then you have to attend to the EMF tutorial for at the next EclipseCon. In the first part you will have time to discover the basics of EMF on a case sudy. In the second part you will have an overview of additional powerful technologies, such as EEF and GMF, 2 projects I will present related to being able to create and modify a model in a graphical manner.
EEF is a tool which enables one to generate sexy properties, but not only. It's a framework, which could be use to generate several kinds of user interface to edit your model.
It has been designed to be compatible with validation and transaction existing EMF components. Let's have a look to to see how you could easily generate an eclipse form editor in one click from your metamodel.
Even EEF if is a quite young project, it is already used in the industry and arouses interest with frequent questions on the newsgroup.
By the way EEF has been nominated and is finalist for the eclipse community award 2001 in the most innovative project category.
GMF is a project dedicated to the creation of diagram editors. It is split in 2 components, the runtime and the tooling.
The runtime connects GEF and EMF. It plugs your EMF model as the model in the GEF model-view-controler architecture and provides a diagram metamodel.
The tooling enables you to generate an editor based on the runtime.
The runtime has been designed for extensibility, you could extend it or redefine some parts very simply.
The tooling uses code templates, that you could extend to generate custom code. This enables you to keep your GMF models and the generated code always synchronized.
That's all for this EEF and GMF preview, if you want to know more, come to the tutorial !
November 4, 2010
Highlights from ESE
ESE is already over, and from this edition I would like to retain 3 things :
Eclipse is a community, and ESE is an awesome opportunity to meet in real life members of Eclipse community. I have found that the attendance was a good mix of committers, adopters and end users which lead to interesting discussion and feedback about projects and technologies. I have liked the accessibility and open mindedness of every person I met.
It was impressive to see that people have understood that modeling is not limited to UML and code generation.
On a textual side Xtext and Acceleo were the 2 stars with a lot of talks presenting their functionalities or exemplary usage. There was also a tutorial combining them to learn how to use these 2 great technologies to model and generate android applications.
On graphical side, there were plenty of eye candy things to see. EEF presentation from Goulwen showed how you could easily generate sexy properties and wizards for a metamodel. Mitra, a semi-automated model transformation tool, presentation showed a 3D user interface where each model is displayed on a 2D plane. I am not sure this is scalable but it was a great demo of what's can be done with GEF3D. Papyrus presentation showed the progress they have made in providing an UML (but not limited to it) reference graphical editor. Bonita Open Solution presentation showed a very attractive and intuitive BPMN editor. In its presentation of modeling for WTP, Etienne showed briefly modelers build with Obeo Designer, our DSL Studio on top of the eclipse modeling platform. Papyrus, Bonita Open Solution, and Obeo Designer relies on the GMF Runtime. Graphiti is a new alternative runtime, and its presentation was a demo of a beautiful library modeler. Last but not least and good transition, Dawn demo of collaborative edition between editors, including diagram ones was amazing.
Model management concerns had a very good coverage this year. CDO is aimed at scalability, sharing and storage of models and Eike presentation about it was very comprehensive. The more I know about CDO, the more I find it well-designed. COPE focus on models migration and its presentation pointed up the advanced tooling they provide to facilitate metamodel evolution. EMF Store is dedicated to models storage and versioning. It uses EMF Compare for comparison and COPE for migration. A talk and a poster were presented.
Other great stuffs were presented like collaboration of EMF and GWT for modeling in the cloud, or Sphinx an initiative to have a more coherent modeling platform.
According to this the modeling symposium was a real success. Many talks on various topics from different speakers. My only regret is that with such a crowd, it was a bit difficult to start a discussion just after a talk, but that's probably the price of fame.
In past I had some headaches with eclipse build technologies. There are several approaches and several projects (PDE Build, Athena, Pluginbuilder, Buckminster, B3), but I think that the gap with them to create and maintain a build remains quite high. The demo I have seen from Pascal of tycho, let me think that it's a promising approach as I have found that it hides the complexity.
Of course there was lot of other pretty cool talks and demos, like the Jeff Noris keynote, that you missed if you weren't at ESE this year. See you next time !
- Community is open and diverse
Eclipse is a community, and ESE is an awesome opportunity to meet in real life members of Eclipse community. I have found that the attendance was a good mix of committers, adopters and end users which lead to interesting discussion and feedback about projects and technologies. I have liked the accessibility and open mindedness of every person I met.
- Modeling is everywhere
It was impressive to see that people have understood that modeling is not limited to UML and code generation.
On a textual side Xtext and Acceleo were the 2 stars with a lot of talks presenting their functionalities or exemplary usage. There was also a tutorial combining them to learn how to use these 2 great technologies to model and generate android applications.
On graphical side, there were plenty of eye candy things to see. EEF presentation from Goulwen showed how you could easily generate sexy properties and wizards for a metamodel. Mitra, a semi-automated model transformation tool, presentation showed a 3D user interface where each model is displayed on a 2D plane. I am not sure this is scalable but it was a great demo of what's can be done with GEF3D. Papyrus presentation showed the progress they have made in providing an UML (but not limited to it) reference graphical editor. Bonita Open Solution presentation showed a very attractive and intuitive BPMN editor. In its presentation of modeling for WTP, Etienne showed briefly modelers build with Obeo Designer, our DSL Studio on top of the eclipse modeling platform. Papyrus, Bonita Open Solution, and Obeo Designer relies on the GMF Runtime. Graphiti is a new alternative runtime, and its presentation was a demo of a beautiful library modeler. Last but not least and good transition, Dawn demo of collaborative edition between editors, including diagram ones was amazing.
Model management concerns had a very good coverage this year. CDO is aimed at scalability, sharing and storage of models and Eike presentation about it was very comprehensive. The more I know about CDO, the more I find it well-designed. COPE focus on models migration and its presentation pointed up the advanced tooling they provide to facilitate metamodel evolution. EMF Store is dedicated to models storage and versioning. It uses EMF Compare for comparison and COPE for migration. A talk and a poster were presented.
Other great stuffs were presented like collaboration of EMF and GWT for modeling in the cloud, or Sphinx an initiative to have a more coherent modeling platform.
According to this the modeling symposium was a real success. Many talks on various topics from different speakers. My only regret is that with such a crowd, it was a bit difficult to start a discussion just after a talk, but that's probably the price of fame.
- Build simplification is moving forward
In past I had some headaches with eclipse build technologies. There are several approaches and several projects (PDE Build, Athena, Pluginbuilder, Buckminster, B3), but I think that the gap with them to create and maintain a build remains quite high. The demo I have seen from Pascal of tycho, let me think that it's a promising approach as I have found that it hides the complexity.
Of course there was lot of other pretty cool talks and demos, like the Jeff Noris keynote, that you missed if you weren't at ESE this year. See you next time !
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