Eclipse Sirius, graphical modeling now available to everyone
After months of an intensive work, Obeo is pleased to announce the release of the highly anticipated Sirius project. This will be a significant event at the EclipseCon Europe conference from October 29 to 31.
Sirius in a few words
Sirius allows you to create a model and to represent information in a visual way.
A modeling workbench designed with Sirius provides a set of graphical editors (diagrams, tables, trees) to visualize and edit models from the Eclipse environment. The creation of this workbench is greatly facilitated by the ability to test the configuration instantly. This allows to quickly create an environment fully dedicated to the users' business domain.
Sirius is the result of a collaboration initiated in 2007, when Thales wished a modeling workbench to support their system engineering process. Thales called on Obeo's services to develop a viewpoint technology for modeling, integrating strong requirements in terms of ergonomics, performance, robustness and personalization capacity.
Sirius is included in Obeo Designer product and has been widely deployed within the Thales Group, it is a key component in creating models and mastering the complexity of big systems in numerous domains: aeronautics, space, transport, energy, information systems, etc.
Why Open Source?
Open Source is part of Obeo's DNA: by releasing Acceleo source code, by becoming a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, Obeo has largely contributed to generalizing model-based approach and is a key player in the Eclipse Open Source community. Sirius project falls within a continuing open source process initiated over than 8 years ago.
By releasing Sirius, Thales and Obeo are pursuing three main objectives:
- Strengthening the Eclipse Modeling ecosystem by providing a mature and leading modeling technology.
- Placing Sirius in a long-term substainability initiative in order to help big companies to support strategic uses.
- Encouraging potential collaborations with other partners in an open and easy to access environment.
In order to accompany and secure the most stringent deployments of the Sirius technology, Obeo offers a set of business solutions that contain:
- Support and maintenance on a packaged bundle of Open Source components integrating Sirius.
- Advanced support for collaborative modeling.
The Sirius roadmap
The first release 0.9 of Sirius will be available in November meaning that the full migration to the Eclipse.org infrastructure will be completed. It will allow to define EMF models editors for tables, trees and diagrams.
Sirius 1.0 will be available in June 2014 and will be part of Luna, the next simultaneous release of Eclipse platform.
Sirius 1.0 will also be supported by Obeo Designer 7.0 in June 2014 and Obeo will provide migra-tion assistance solutions.
To learn more
To discover Sirius and to get a pre-version, please visit the Eclipse Sirius website.
The Sirius release will be also a major event at the EclipseCon Europe conference, from October 29 to 31 in Germany. Obeo will be there to present Sirius, with a booth, a hands-on session and 4 talks:
- Sirius By Example: Build Your Own Diagram, Table and Tree Editors in 20 Minutes (with Thales)
- Sirius: Changing the Game of Systems Architecture
- Turning Eclipse into an Arduino programming platform for kids
- EcoreTools 2.0: The Making-Of
