I am glad to announce that Eclipse Sirius Web 2023.4.0 is now available. This release primarily adds new features for studio makers. Enhanced Palette Tools for Diagrams We have introduced the Palette concept in the diagram description. A Palette contains all the tools available for a Diagram, Node, or Edge. In previous versions, the tools were defined just under the related object, scattered among...

Right on schedule, Eclipse Sirius Web 2023.3.0 is now available. You can get it from GitHub and build/deploy it yourself. Here are the highlights of this version. You can find more details, including more technical-oriented changes in the complete changelog . Project Templates We have improved the user experience with a redesigned Projects Browser. It now offers support for project templates to cr...

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” probably was one of the mantra the Eclipse Modeling Framework team (Ed Merks, Marcelo Paternostro, Dave Steinberg among others…) sticked to when they created the core concepts which would allow the definition of all the others tools. Ecore is a kernel, you define your domain-specific model using these constructs. It boils down to c...

At the Eclipse Foundation conference last October, we had the opportunity to demonstrate an integration of Eclipse Sirius Web and Project Jupyter Notebook for seamless design, simulation, and analysis. As a data enthusiast, I’ve always been impressed by the versatility of Jupyter. It serves as a hub for reproducible science and a gateway to a vast array of Python frameworks for data science, visua...

2023 has been here for a month, and it’s time to hop into the year of the Water Rabbit according to the Chinese calendar. Preparing the Sirius Web project’s objectives, I was wondering: what’s in store for this year? And, just for curiosity, I searched for the Chinese zodiac fortune predictions for 2023: The year of the Water Rabbit is going to be a gentler year. We’ll have time to take a breather...

When you pick technologies to build tools empowering hundreds of your engineers, you aim at making the best choice. Open-Source is the best when you play the long term. The Eclipse Foundation ensures that all the metrics related to an Open-Source project are exposed on its website, helping you to assess the effort which goes into maintaining and updating the technology. With 12 releases in 2022 , ...

Building graphical modeling tools can be a complex undertaking, especially if they need to support many features and functions. At Obeo, we have extensive experience in this area and strive to make the process as easy and accessible as possible. To accomplish this, we rely on several strategies, including modular design, higher-level abstractions, and the ability to iterate quickly on a tool defin...