Yet Another Eclipse Project Blog

Bye bye

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Today is my last day in OBEO.

It's been a pleasure working with the team that created the Acceleo, EMF Compare, ATL and Intent Eclipse projects.
This has been an honor to work with the foundation about EEF.

I do not know now if my involvement will be as strong as now, but I will work in an environment where I should use eclipse modeling tools, so I do not make me worry.

Thank you to everyone I could be next to, thank you to everyone who helped me by mail or bugzilla and see you very soon!

Moving to git is complete

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Hi,

There it is, the move to Git repo is done.

The oldish CVS is marked read only, and the github repository will shows up in few days.

Next step, the move from EMFT to EMF !

EEF 1.1.0 Release

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:37:00 +0000

Hi,

We are pleased to announce the 1.1.0 EEF release, that will be included into Juno.

you can grab the zipped update site from here : http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/downloads/?project=eef

or use the p2 repository : http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/updates/releases/1.1

Please use the corresponding acceleo maintenance release ( 3.2.1 ) to obtain the latest improvements we've made.

Moving to Git

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:47:00 +0000

Hi,

EEF is preparing to move to Git !

We have already set up the repository, and we will mark the CVS read only right after the 1.1 Release.

EEF should be available soon in GitHub.

http://git.eclipse.org/c/eef/org.eclipse.eef.git/

p2 repositories ... we can do better : EEF Make it better !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:44:00 +0000

Hi,

Following David's request [1], I modified the promotion script used by EEF and other obeo's tycho builds in order to be more friendly with the Eclipse's servers infrastructure :)

I modified the pom.xml file for the update site project, adding a post-step phase generating a properties file and copying 2 files :
- a promote.xml ant script,
- a p2.xsl xslt file.

Then when I connect to eclipse servers, i am able to run the ant script that do these steps :
- copy the zipped update site to correct drops location, and renaming it using the properties given at the launch of the build ( Type, Alias )
- unzip the same update site to updates location,
- apply the xslt transformation to the p2 metadatas in order to activate updates stats and p2.mirrorsURL indication,
- copy the p2.index files in correct location.

if you are interested in this script for your tycho build, take a look at :
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/releng/org.eclipse.emf.eef.update/?root=Modeling_Project

[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg07400.html

Building @ eclipse tip : signing depending on properties

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:06:00 +0000

Hi,

I would like to share a tip I've found to be able to sign our EEF project depending on a property during hudson build.

Historically, Eclipse uses some build type to determine the degree of maturity of a project. We use the same for EEF builds

I've set up my build to look at the repo every 6 hours, and it will build automatically a N build if any change is found.

Hopefully, I can kick a build manually, but hudson will then ask me for some properties :

- a build type ( default to N )
- a build alias ( default to nothing )

Then it is very simple to add a profile for the p2 repository generation that will sign the repo if the build alias is set or not !

The following piece of code is actually doing this:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/releng/org.eclipse.emf.eef.update/pom.xml?view=markup&root=Modeling_Project

And voilà !

Now the signing occurs only if the build alias is set. I tried to sign the build if

Obviously using another property ( for example "sign" ) that is set to false by default, or i can use multiple activation (?) ( for example, if build type is R,S,M or I ) can work, too.

update : seems that blogger does not love xml code.

EEF 1.1 M3 is approaching

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:16:00 +0000

While some of my colleagues are enjoying the ECE, I stay at Obeo's offices to prepare the Juno release of EEF.

I finally get a good build using tycho and signing at eclipse, just in time for M3 :)

This build is available directly from hudson :
https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emf-eef-master/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.eef/releng/org.eclipse.emf.eef.update/target/

You can download the zipped repository or point out to the 'repository' folder.

With this version, you can also give a try to the EMF generation using Acceleo !

10 ans déjà !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:20:00 +0000

This is a post written in french, for english readers, the translation is here.

La fondation Eclipse célèbre les 10 ans de l'IDE du même nom lors de la conférence Européenne EclipseCon dans les prochains jours.

Pour l'occasion, un site à été créé retraçant l'historique du projet : http://eclipse.org/10years/
Ce site permet d'afficher une timeline indiquant les grandes dates de la vie d'Eclipse.

Celle-ci étant collaborative, profitez en pour y inscrire vos projets Eclipse !!!

Pour ma part, je profite de ce blog pour revenir sur mon aventure avec Eclipse :
Mon expérience de développement en JAVA commence à l'EMN, en 2000. A l'époque, j'utilisais l'environnement VisualAge for JAVA.

En 2001, deux de mes collègues de promotion reviennent d'un stage dans la société OTI, avec dans leurs valises un nouvel IDE. Celui ci deviendra la première version d'Eclipse !
J'ai été surtout intéressé par son mode de développement, selon des techniques agiles ( build continu et "self hosting").

Leurs retours très positifs m'ont incité à utiliser la version 1.0 d'Eclipse dès sa sortie.

Il n'a plus quitté mon PC depuis.

J'ai tout de suite adhéré aux valeurs d'Eclipse : Communauté, Transparence, Ouverture.
Dès le début, j'ai utilisé le bugzilla, avec une mince contribution jusqu'en 2007.

Depuis j'ai été recruté chez OBEO, société est très impliquée dans l'écosystème Eclipse avec divers projets comme Acceleo, ATL et EMF Compare.
Je suis devenu committeur officiel dans un projet eclipse, dont ce blog en est l'une des vitrines.

J'ai également pris part à la sortie simultanée de plusieurs versions d'Eclipse. Je suis également impliqué dans les autres projets ainsi que dans l'écosystème Eclipse en général.
J'utilise quotidiennement les divers outils qu'offre la communauté (bugzilla, mailing list, wiki).

Avec le recul, je ne pensais pas il y a 10 ans être autant impliqué !

Je souhaite un très bon anniversaire à Eclipse (ainsi qu'à ses contributeurs) et lui souhaite encore des dizaines d'autres anniversaires !

Celebrating 10 years of Eclipse

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:19:00 +0000

This is a translation of a post written in french, the original is here.

The Eclipse Foundation celebrates the 10th birthday of Eclipse IDE during the EclipseCon Europe in few days.

For the occasion, a site has been created retracing the history of the project: http://eclipse.org/10years/
This site presents a timeline showing key dates in the life of Eclipse. It is collaborative, take this opportunity to register your Eclipse projects!

For my part, I will share with you, my Eclipse adventure :

My experience in Java development begins at the EMN in 2000. At that time I was using VisualAge for Java environment.

In 2001, two of my colleagues returned from a Canadian intership with a new IDE in their suitcase . It will become the first version of Eclipse! I was particularly interested in its development model, based on agile techniques (continuous build and "self hosting").

Their very positive feedback prompted me to use the Eclipse version 1.0 upon its release. It hasn't left my computer since.

I subscribed immediately to the Eclipse Foundation values : Community, Transparency, Openness.
From the beginning, I used the bugzilla, with a thin contribution until 2007.

Since then, I was recruited at OBEO, company deeply involved in the Eclipse ecosystem with various projects such as Acceleo, ATL and EMF Compare.

I became an official committer on the EEF project, which this blog is one of the showcase.

I also took part in the last 3 Eclipse's simultaneous releases trains. I am also involved to other projects and the Eclipse ecosystem in general.
Every day, I use the various tools provided by the community (bugzilla, mailing list, wiki).

Looking back 10 years ago, I didn't thought I will be so involved !

I wish a very happy birthday to Eclipse (and contributors) and I wish It dozens more birthdays!

Model Focusing Tools Proposal

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:44:00 +0000

Hi,

It is a great honor to see that Model Focusing Tools Proposal want to use EEF for bringing Mylyn's task-focused interface in Form-based editors.

Thanks to Miles for its reports and contribution, and Ericsson to sponsoring Modeling tooling.

As a side note, EMF Compare is also another project that is sponsored by Ericsson to bring comparison for GMF Diagrams.

New project summary pages looks great !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:49:00 +0000

Thanks Wayne to provides a new summary page.

It looks very nice !

http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=modeling.emft.eef

[update] it seems that some other informations are now displayed in the page :
- Source repository
- p2 update site URL
- Communication channels

Tycho 0.13 and Eclipse Naming conventions

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:41:00 +0000

Testing Tycho, I ran into a new validation step introduced in 0.13 version [1] saying :

" Tycho projects are now required to match the artifactId defined in the pom.xml with the ID specified in the MANIFEST.MF or feature.xml."

This is causing some troubles with our "old" projects, built with Athena. The scripts enforced us to have the same id for feature and main plugin. If they didn't match, build failed.

Using Tycho prior to 0.13 worked, but now the validation phase breaks the build :(

I cannot find any Naming Convention for Eclipse features, just plugins :

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Naming_Conventions

In my opinion, ids must be different, but i opened a request to have more clarifications [1].

How do you handles your features id ?

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Release_Notes/0.13
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=358917

What's next in EEF

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:07:00 +0000

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 compiled modules.

This is not the only thing we are working on. Among other things : Improve import generation, better handling of event ( no more unnecessary 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 !

Broken NNTP/Forums

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:26:00 +0000

Since the upgrade of the forum software hosted on eclipse ( https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=348449 ), it seems the bridge between old school users ( nntp users, like myself ) and web users ( forums ) is not working has expected.

I checked up this morning some forums i am usually following using my nntp client, and discover that replies are not shown, some are ok bu with bad user information, and replies from users are not visible in NNTP.

This is a big problem for the community, so vote and help webmasters in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=348449

[Survey] How many projets are using EMF ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:26:00 +0000

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 !

Eclipse 3.7M6 and releng stories

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:03:00 +0000

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

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

How to enhance an eclipse component ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:59:00 +0000

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 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 !

EEF finalist of the eclipse awards 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:25:00 +0000

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 : http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/videos/emf-library-in-5-mn.htm

you can also try EEF by downloading the last released version here or by checking for the updates inside your eclipse installation.

What's new in EEF 0.8.2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:00:00 +0000

Hi,

there is some time i did not give you some news about EEF.

Today is the official release of Helios SR2, and we worked on bug fixes for EEF, so you can download a new version right now by either :

- using the update site : http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/updates/releases/0.8
- downloading the packages :http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/downloads/?project=eef
- or just hit " Check for updates" in eclipse

EEF 0.9.0 and new build system

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:23:00 +0000

Hi followers,

It is time to give some news about EEF for eclipse indigo.

We have changed our build system since the build server at eclipse suddenly dies, so we are using buckminster for EEF 0.9 stream.

For those who want to test the M3 release, we just committed our contribution to the release train, so you can find all the necessary informations in the installation section of EEF :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EEF_Installation_Guide

EEF should be available in the next days in the modeling packages, too.

For EEF itself, we are making some major changes in the runtime to improve performances and generate less code.

What's new in EEF 0.8.1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Today is the final release of EEF 0.8.1, part of Eclipse Helios SR1.

You can download the new version trough the update site or via the modeling package by using the modeling discovery tool and select EEF.

So, what is new in this version ?

As always, various bug fixes, and some improvements :
- better swtbot support for EEF generated views
- lots of improvements for the master/view presentation ( the one used for the WorldCup ForeCast demo )

worlcupForecast : final results

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:07:00 +0000

Hi,

If you played with our special forecast application, you can see here the results.

Thanks for the 71 people who used this application, feel free to comment/ report enhancements/bugs to the project.

See you in next competition ! football ? basketball ? hockey ? ;)

Helios is Here !

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Hi all,

I am proud to announce that Helios is shipped in time this year !

you can find it here :

www.eclipse.org/helios

EEF is also shipped with the modeling package :
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/

Want the update site ? no problem, it is here :

http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/updates/releases/

Finally, if you want to download the release version of EEF ( 0.8.0 ), it is here :

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/downloads/index.php?project=eef

I hope this year again eclipse simultaneous release will provide you the best tools for developing your applications !

EEF Final almost here

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:15:00 +0000

hi people,

Helios is almost here, just 2 weeks to wait !

We had some hard times during all the RC release process, but we succeed to provide the final bits of EEF.

If you want to test it now, and see a sample of what you can creates with EMF and EEF, check out our great sample :

http://wiki.eclipse.org/EEF_Sample_World_Cup_Forecasts

Go play ! :)

Acceleo Tip #3

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:31:00 +0000

Will the helios M6 release, each project have freezed their API. This was the last chance to implement or break API if needed !

I will just point something that changes with the last OCL 3.0.0M6 release.

This version introduced 'body' as reserved keyword for OCL so every metamodel that use 'body' as attribute name will have parsing errors from Acceleo !
see bug 305517.

But wait !

For EEF, we changed the metamodel to avoid collision, but for those who cannot change it, like UML ?

If you try the acceleo examples, there is the case with the UML2java example. for comments, there is the initial template used :
[for (cmt : Comment | o.ownedComment)] [cmt.body/][/for]

Acceleo will not be able to parse it, due to the 'body' keyword.

Here is the solution : prefix with the '_' character, aka '_body'. Acceleo will parse correctly and generates the correct code :

[for (cmt : Comment | o.ownedComment)] [cmt._body/][/for]

This may be disturbing the first time...