Eclipse Sirius is a framework to easily and quickly create a graphical modeling workbench dedicated to your domain specific language. This year at Obeo , we started working on two aspects: prepare the future of Sirius & provide new features for the upcoming 6.0 release which is part of the Photon release train. Ready for Photon? Sirius 6.0 is there for you! We have added several new features: ...

The next major version of Sirius , version 6.0, will be released on June 27, 2018 as part of the Eclipse Photon Simultaneous Release, with a corresponding version of Obeo Designer Community Edition soon after. Many of the new features for this release are already available for testing in milestone versions, and now is the right time to test them and give us feedback: there’s still time to make adj...

In general, users of Open Source projects like Sirius tend to only interact with the project when they have problems, or once in a while to thank us (which is always greatly appreciated!). It can be difficult to find out who is using the project, how they use it, and what they would like to see in future versions. Last October (during SiriusCon 2017), we released the first ever Sirius Community Su...

At Obeo , we have done the first steps to bring Sirius to the web. Today we are ready to work with you to bring your own modeling tool up to the cloud. If you are curious about details, this is the longer story… As you know, at Obeo, we have been working on modeling tools for a long time now, and we therefore have a lot of experience developing graphical tools. Obeo is a key player in the Modeling...

A small post to announce that I will be speaking at CheConf18 , a one day conference dedicated to Eclipse Che an extensible cloud development platform. I am really excited to participate to this event! I will co speak with Stevan Le Meur, Che maintainer from RedHat about Building Extensibility and Community for Che. During our session, you’ll get a preview of the work we prototyped at Obeo to brin...

Dear Santa Claus, My name is Mélanie and I am a little bit too old for that. It’s been a long while since I last wrote to you. This year I have been really naughty nice. All I want for Christmas is: An Eclipse Sirius 6.0 version for June 2018 compatible with Java 8, 9, 10 ( a big fat hen ), 11… and Eclipse Oxygen & Photon. Improved Xtext compatibility with Sirius. I want to thank you Santa as ...

When Capella was made open source in 2014, feedback was collected from early users and adopters. The feedback showed several topics were important to the open source community. First and foremost, users wanted to learn how to efficiently collaborate on a single Capella model and minimize configuration and version management problems. Second, users wanted to generate their documentation efficiently...