This week I am participating to EclipseCon Europe to present what’s new in Eclipse Sirius 4.1. What I feel like on monday morning: Joy! On Monday evening I’ll be in Ludwigsburg for EclipseCon! This one is little special as it will be my first one as an official Sirius committer. I am really happy to introduce you to the new features of the 4.1 release, especially what we did to improve the specifi...

The team is not only polishing Sirius 4.1.0 which is planned for the end of September, but also preparing for the ultimate event for the Sirius community aka SiriusCon ! We organized the first edition last year with the help of the Eclipse Fundation: a one-day free event with two tracks filled with highly specialized talks and sessions dedicated to discovery. It looks like we stroke a right balanc...

UML Designer 7.0 is out. This new release is based on Eclipse  Sirius 4.0  and Eclipse  Neon . It provides plenty of brand new features: Bi-directional link with editor ( #523 ) New dashboard based on the Activity Explorer from Amalgam ( #827 ) Class diagram: represent abstract element in italic ( #758 ) represent static element underlined ( #363 ) view the qualified name of a class in the tooltip...

Be meticulous with the model describing your domain! So many aspects of your tool will trickle down from your Ecore model that it pays a lot to pause for a bit and do some basic sanity checks. The Ecore model in the center is the basis for so many things! Eclipse Modeling technologies are enabling you to build graphical, tree or textual editors, connectors to import or export data, code generators...

EclipseCon Europe 2015 is over now. This conference is the one in which the “Eclipse Family” feeling is the most inescapable. The downside of this is that one might experience a slight melancholy when the conference is over. This tweet from Alexandra reflects quite well the mood This was a busy and exhausting week – especially for those like me who just landed on the old continent from the bay are...