At Nantes Dev Force Station Launch Complex 42A, valves are open and code source is beginning to flow into Obeo’s rocket. The first open source project released by the SIRIUS-II Mission is: EMF-JSON. The EMF-JSON project will soon be part of the Eclipse Sirius project. It provides a JSON-based implementation of EMF resources which can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default XMI-based forma...

On Wednesday, October 21 at 2:00 p.m. CEST, Obeo’s Spacecraft 42 will launch the SIRIUS-II mission from Code Launch Complex 42 (CLC-42) at Nantes Dev Force Station in France. SIRIUS-I mission previously launched Sirius to the Eclipse Foundation with Obeo’s & Thales astronauts on board back in 2013. The first mission was a success with the adoption of Sirius Desktop, based on the Eclipse platfo...

  “Mamma mia, does it show again My my, just how much I've missed you?” ( Mamma Mia ) On the 18th of June, I will have the pleasure of presenting the Obeo Cloud Platform, with my co-speaker Stéphane Bégaudeau , at SiriusCon Live 2020 . During SiriusCon 2020, we will not only demonstrate OCP, but also make a big announcement about its future. So, attend SiriusCon and be in for a huge surprise! Afte...

Docker makes it easy to deploy web applications. In the case of a simple web application, the server can contain both the backend and the static resources of the frontend such as JavaScript files, images, CSS files, etc. But in order to create our container we need to build our backend and frontend first. We can quite easily install everything on our computer to build both our backend and our fron...

In Java, we are constantly manipulating various sequences of data in our applications. Most of the time, this is done thanks to implementations of Iterable and Iterator. Java 8 gave us more modern APIs for sequences of data with both Optional and Stream. Those two new concepts provide us with great APIs to manipulate sequences of respectively 0..1 elements and 0..n elements. Optional.of("first").i...

This week I had the pleasure to participate in a Red Hat workshop on microservices and Open Shift in Paris. Open Shift is an open source platform to manage microservice-based applications deployed in containers and orchestrated by Kubernetes. I had the opportunity to see some Open Shift demonstrations in the past but it was the first time I could really use it by myself. For this workshop, we also...

Last week, I had the pleasure to go back to DevFest Nantes and, just like last year, it was a great experience. It is the perfect opportunity to stay up to date on technologies such as Android, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform and the web in general. The DevFest was located once again at La Cité Nantes Congress Centre, a perfect place for such conference. The rooms are great, the sound is perfect a...