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EMF/HeliosReview
This page provides the required docuware for the EMF Core 2.6.0 Release Review, as part of the upcoming Helios Simultaneous Release.
Contents
Overview
The EMF project is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. From a model specification described in XMI, EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, along with a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor.
The Helios release was primarily maintenance but a significant number of interesting aspects were added, including support reflective operation invocation, extensible operation, feature and constraint behavior, runtime and generator support for Google Widget Toolkit, improved RAP integration, and property-based data binding.
Features
New in this release
Accordance with project plan themes and priorities
- Compliance - 0 committed, 0 deferred
- Release Currency - 0 committed, 0 deferred
- Usability - 0 committed, 0 deferred
Non-Code Aspects
- Documentation hosted at [EMF Web site | http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=emf]
- Documentation (FAQ, Javadoc, articles, etc.) available at http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMF.
APIs
- The project lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release.
- Metamodel definitions and corresponding implementations are considered APIs.
- API Tooling has not been employed; no time.
Architecture
- Reflective operation invocation.
- Extensible behavior for operations, features, and constraints.
- Property-based data binding.
- Runtime and generator support for Google Widget Toolkit.
- Improved RAP integration.
Tool Usability
- Sample tools haven't changed significantly.
End-of-Life
Nothing significant has been deprecated.
Bugzilla
Bugzilla snapshot for Helios as of May 28, 2010.
Standards
Ecore is isomorphic to the OMG's EMOF specification.
UI Usability
EMF core provides only a sample user interface.
Schedule
EMF Core is a “+1” component in the simultaneous release.
M1 08/17/2009 M2 09/28/2009 M3 11/09/2009 M4 12/14/2009 M5 02/01/2010 M6 03/15/2010 API freeze M7 05/03/2010 Feature Freeze RC1 05/17/2010 RC2 05/24/2010 RC3 05/31/2010 RC4 06/07/2010 RC5 06/14/2010 Helios 06/23/2010
Communities
- Interaction in Bugzilla
- Activity on the EMF newsgroup
- Collaboration with other projects at Eclipse
Commiter Changes
No commiter change.
IP Issues
The EMF Core leadership verifies that:
- the about files and use licenses are in place as per the Guidelines to Legal Documentation.
- all 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.
- all significant contributions have been reviewed by the Foundation's legal staff.
- all non-Committer code contributions, including third-party libraries, have been documented in the release and reviewed by the Foundation's legal staff.
- all Contribution Questionnaires have been completed.
- the "provider" field of each plug-in is set to "Eclipse Modeling Project“.
- the "copyright" field of each feature is set to the copyright owner (the Eclipse Foundation is rarely the copyright owner).
- any third-party logos or trademarks included in the distribution (icons, help file logos, etc) have been licensed under the EPL.
- any fonts or similar third-party images included in the distribution (e.g. in PDF or EPS files) have been licensed under the EPL.
The EMF Core Project IP log in located at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=modeling.emf.emf
Project Plan
The current project plan is available from http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/emf/project-info/plan.xml&component=EMF.
Draft development plan for EMF Core 2.7.0 is not yet available.