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Stephane Begaudeau ''(stephane.begaudeau@obeo.fr)''
 
Stephane Begaudeau ''(stephane.begaudeau@obeo.fr)''
  
Release Review : May 16, 2012
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Release Review : May 22, 2012
  
 
''Communication Channel : eclipse.modeling.m2t newsgroup''
 
''Communication Channel : eclipse.modeling.m2t newsgroup''
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===New and noteworthy===
 
===New and noteworthy===
==== Interpreter view ====
 
The interpreter view allows the user to enter Acceleo expressions and to execute them without the need to launch a generation.
 
 
[[Image:Acceleo_Interpreter_Variable_Sample.png|thumb|none|800px|The interpreter view]]
 
 
This new view is available directly in the Acceleo perspective.
 
 
 
==== Performances ====
 
==== Performances ====
 
Performances improvements in the compilation and the tooling.
 
Performances improvements in the compilation and the tooling.
  
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==== Improved compilation ====
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The compiler has been restructured to fix long standing architectural limitations
  
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==== New operations ====
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New operations are available in the Acceleo non standard library (addAll, removeAll, etc)
  
==== JRE selection in the new project wizard ====
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==== New documentation ====
When creating a new Acceleo project, you can now choose the JRE of your choice.
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The documentation has been rewritten massively
 
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[[Image:Acceleo jre.png|thumb|none|600px|The new project wizard]]
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==== Improved compilation ====
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The compilation has been improved and as such compiled Acceleo modules (".emtl" files) are now way smaller.
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==== New dynamic modules extension point ====
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Users who were using the dynamic module extension point to extends a generator can now use the brand new extension point created to contribute to a specific generator.
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[[Image:Acceleo dynamic modules extension point.png|thumb|none|542px|The new extension point with the old deprecated one.]]
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==== UML to Java example ====
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The popular example UML to Java has been updated for Eclipse Juno with a brand new version
  
Acceleo 3.3 is compatible with Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo), Eclipse 3.6 (Helios), Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) and Eclipse 3.8/4.2 (Juno).
 
  
 
===Quality of APIs===
 
===Quality of APIs===
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===End of Life Issues===
 
===End of Life Issues===
The extension point for dynamic templates ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.templates") is now deprecated. It still works but a new extension point has been contributed instead ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.modules").  
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The extension point for dynamic templates ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.modules") is now deprecated. The extension point ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.templates") now does the same job.
  
 
===Committer Diversity===
 
===Committer Diversity===
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CQ 6308 - Twitter Bootstrap - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6308
 
CQ 6308 - Twitter Bootstrap - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6308
 
CQ 6309 - JQuery - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6309
 
CQ 6309 - JQuery - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6309
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CQ 6310 - Guava Version: 10.0.1 https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6310
  
 
All other contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy. The other contributions of the IP log are not significant or are written 100% by employees of the same employer (Obeo) as the Submitting Committer (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf).
 
All other contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy. The other contributions of the IP log are not significant or are written 100% by employees of the same employer (Obeo) as the Submitting Committer (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf).
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==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==
The documentation that comes with Acceleo 3.2 is available in the Help menu : Acceleo Model To Text Transformation Language.
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The documentation that comes with Acceleo 3.3 is available in the Help menu : Acceleo Documentation.
  
 
Each document of the documentation set deals with a different aspect of mastering Acceleo :
 
Each document of the documentation set deals with a different aspect of mastering Acceleo :
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Note : these figures are subject to changes as the whole team is in the process of fixing bugs until the final release (this snapshot has been taken on September 27, 2011)‏
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Note : these figures are subject to changes as the whole team is in the process of fixing bugs until the final release (this snapshot has been taken on Mai 22, 2011)‏
  
 
==Tool usability==
 
==Tool usability==
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* Acceleo at Code Generation 2011: http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2011/sessioninfo.php?session=24
 
* Acceleo at Code Generation 2011: http://www.codegeneration.net/cg2011/sessioninfo.php?session=24
  
Talks will be given during EclipseCon Europe 2011.
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Talks have been given during EclipseCon 2012.
  
 
Other medium:
 
Other medium:
 
* Activity on the M2T newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.m2t): more than 80 threads on Acceleo from June 2010 to May 2011
 
* Activity on the M2T newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.m2t): more than 80 threads on Acceleo from June 2010 to May 2011
 
* Twitter account of the Acceleo project: http://twitter.com/acceleo
 
* Twitter account of the Acceleo project: http://twitter.com/acceleo
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* Google+ account of the Acceleo project: https://plus.google.com/114651471803085159652
 
* Acceleo on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/acceleo/info
 
* Acceleo on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/acceleo/info
  
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==Schedule==
 
==Schedule==
Acceleo 3.2 Release Plan
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Acceleo 3.3 Release Plan
  RC1 10/10/2011
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  RC1 05/22/2012
  RC2 10/15/2011
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  RC2 05/29/2012
  Final 10/23/2011
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  Final 06/05/2012
  3.2   10/24/2011
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  3.3   06/23/2012
  
 
==Project Plan==
 
==Project Plan==

Revision as of 09:00, 22 May 2012

3.3 Release Review - Acceleo 3.3

Stephane Begaudeau (stephane.begaudeau@obeo.fr)

Release Review : May 22, 2012

Communication Channel : eclipse.modeling.m2t newsgroup

Process Documentation : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php

Project Plan : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-indigo.xml

3.3 Release Highlights

New and noteworthy

Performances

Performances improvements in the compilation and the tooling.

Improved compilation

The compiler has been restructured to fix long standing architectural limitations

New operations

New operations are available in the Acceleo non standard library (addAll, removeAll, etc)

New documentation

The documentation has been rewritten massively

UML to Java example

The popular example UML to Java has been updated for Eclipse Juno with a brand new version


Quality of APIs

The component lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release. All non-API code is in "internal" packages.

End of Life Issues

The extension point for dynamic templates ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.modules") is now deprecated. The extension point ("org.eclipse.acceleo.engine.dynamic.templates") now does the same job.

Committer Diversity

4 Committers from Obeo, and 2 individual committers.

IP Issues

The about files and use licenses are in place as per the Guidelines to Legal Documentation.

CQ 6308 - Twitter Bootstrap - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6308 CQ 6309 - JQuery - https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6309 CQ 6310 - Guava Version: 10.0.1 https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6310

All other contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy. The other contributions of the IP log are not significant or are written 100% by employees of the same employer (Obeo) as the Submitting Committer (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf).

All contribution Questionnaires have been completed.

The "provider" field of each plugin is set to "Eclipse Modeling Project".

The "copyright" field of each plugin is set to the copyright owner.

Any third-party logos or trademarks included in the distribution (icons, logos, etc) have been licensed under the EPL.

The Acceleo IP log is located at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=modeling.m2t.acceleo

Non-Code Aspects

Unit tests

2477 unit tests are launched every day.

Code coverage is about:

  • 82.9 % of the traceability engine
  • 80.6 % of the compiler
  • 61.7 % of the code generation engine

Code quality

Checkstyle activated on each distinct plug-in.

Eclemma used on a regular basis to improve test coverage.

Yourkit used on a regular basis to improve performances.

Javadoc represents more than 44% of the Java source code.

An Ohloh page is available at http://www.ohloh.net/p/acceleo-eclipse/analyses/latest

APIs

Metamodel definitions and interfaces are considered APIs.

Commitment to provide stand-alone code generation.

Non-API classes are separated from the exposed API through an "internal" namespace.

API Tooling is activated on all plugins to mark exceptions within the exposed API.

Non-API packages are exported with an internal visibility as such they are visible but with an illegal access warning.

Documentation

The documentation that comes with Acceleo 3.3 is available in the Help menu : Acceleo Documentation.

Each document of the documentation set deals with a different aspect of mastering Acceleo : There are a Plug-in Overview, a Quick Start, an Android Code Generation Tutorial, a User Guide, several short tutotials to create code generation projects, an Acceleo/OCL operations reference to describe the Acceleo/OCL library, and a Text Production Rules document.

The main documentation is the User Guide because it fully describes each and every feature of Acceleo. From the installation to the execution with a trip through the editing features, it gives an in-depth description of everything there is to know about Acceleo.

Basic Examples are available in the example category : UML to Java, and Ecore to Python.

There is also a basic information page on the Eclipse Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/Acceleo

Bugzilla

NEW RESOLVED VERIFIED CLOSED TOTAL
blocker 0 0 0 3 3
critical 1 1 0 6 8
major 3 3 0 8 14
normal 23 18 0 34 75
minor 1 1 0 8 10
enhancement 7 3 0 6 16
TOTAL 35 26 0 65 126

Note : these figures are subject to changes as the whole team is in the process of fixing bugs until the final release (this snapshot has been taken on Mai 22, 2011)‏

Tool usability

Localization : integrated into Babel

Standards

This implementation of Acceleo is based on the OMG MOF Model-To-Text OMG Standard : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/

End of Life

There are no specific end of life concerns for this release.

Communities

Talks have been given on the following events:

Talks have been given during EclipseCon 2012.

Other medium:

Committer Changes

None

Schedule

Acceleo 3.3 Release Plan

RC1	05/22/2012
RC2	05/29/2012
Final  06/05/2012
3.3    06/23/2012

Project Plan

The Acceleo 3.3 project plan is available at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-juno.xml

What's next?

Legal Notices

Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Oracle, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.

UML, OMG, EMOF, OCL and XMI are trademarks of the Object Management Group.

Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.



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