Sirius: Neues Eclipse-Projekt für grafische domänenspezifische Sprachen Domänenspezifische Sprachen (DSLs) sind ein ungebrochener Trend in der Softwareentwicklung. Das liegt nicht zuletzt an der Verfügbarkeit entsprechender Werkzeuge. Hier spielen textuelle DSLs eine große Rolle. Neben den fachlichen Argumenten für eine textuelle Darstellung ist die Werkzeug-Unterstützung für grafische DSLs aktuell eingeschränkt. Eine grafische DSL erfordert oft noch manuelle Entwicklungsarbeit für die Editoren. Via heise.de...

The first edition of EclipseCon France is ready to start! And we are already waiting for you on our booth. Don't miss our presentations during the conference program: Sirius By Example: Build Your Own Diagram, Table and Tree Editors in 20 Minutes WTFM! Write The Friendly Manual with Mylyn Intent OSGi: Don't let me be Misunderstood How Polarsys and LTS IWG can help make your Eclipse tools better and eternal See you soon!...

5 talks I won't miss (among others): Sirius By Example: Build Your Own Diagram, Table and Tree Editors in 20 Minutes Although there has been a (deserved) big trend on Textual DSL for the last few years, Graphical Languages are still widely used and a lot of new use-cases are invented every week. Current status of diagramming at Eclipse relies on efficient but old projects that are often seen with an entry-barrier too high according to adopters. I expect Sirius will have a lower entry barrier to develop tools for Graphical Languages. Via Eclipsecon.org...

Last year, I’ve wrote a post on Launching Acceleo generation from Maven. This was actually a second post on this topic – second post introducing multi Acceleo generators project build. Via Laurent Broudoux Blog...

UML Designer, SysML Designer and UML to Java Generator bring you a new version. UML Designer 2.2 For UML Designer, the Composite Structure diagram is now available. Performances and scalibility were improved. More information here: UML Designer. Do you want a better UML Designer? Please, quickly fill our survey to help us to do it: http://bit.ly/UMLDesignerSurvey SysML Designer 2.1 For SysML Designer, Requirement diagram was added and BDD, IBD and Parametric diagrams were stabilized. More information here: SysML Designer. UML to Java 2.0 The new version of UML to Java Generator is now available and compatible with the lastest version of Eclipse UML. Here is a short overview of the new and noteworthy: Support for components and nested classifiers. New launch configuration, more easy to configure. More information here: UML to Java....