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The query, facet and custumization mechanism have been copied from MoDisco. MoDisco components will be disabled when the refactoring of EMF Facet ones will be done. This is expected for 0.2.0.

Revision as of 05:43, 26 May 2011

This page provides the required docuware for the EMF Facet v0.1.0 Release Review, as part of the upcoming Indigo Simultaneous Release.

Overview

EMF Facet provides a generic and extensible MDE framework to support meta-model extension and model customization.

It is an Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology (EMFT) project, inside the Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP).

Features

In this release

For the first time, EMF Facet is part of an Eclipse Simultaneous Release. The different features provided by EMF Facet v0.1.0, as part of Indigo, are of three categories.

Queries

  • A query abstraction mechanism allowing language-independent querying on models;
  • The facet mechanism for dynamically extending the metamodels;
  • A model customization mechanism allowing to change the rendering of model element in function of them state.
  • Customizable widget

The query, facet and custumization mechanism have been copied from MoDisco. MoDisco components will be disabled when the refactoring of EMF Facet ones will be done. This is expected for 0.2.0.

This feature ishidden by a capability until the MoDisco version is not deprecated.

Accordance with project plan themes and priorities

The EMF Facet project plan has not be totally achieved. We were expecting to deprecated the MoDisco features and to enable the EMF Facet ones, but this as not be possible, due to a lake of time. Actually, the EMF Facet feature are hidden by a capability and MoDisco features still the official implementation of the query, facet and customization mechanism.

Non-Code Aspects

The complete EMF Facet documentation is available from the EMF Facet head documentation. This documentation is generated from the embedded Help plug-ins.

The EMF Facet website provides a direct access to all the related resources.

APIs

The current EMF Facet API situation is detailed the API report build on the version 0.1.0 RC2.

Two illegal API used have been identified and are tracked by the following bugs : bug 344247, bug 344246. Those illegal uses have been found to late (2011-04-29) to be fixed for the version 0.1.0. To prevent other late warnings, an API report is generated with each build.

Architecture

The EMF Facet architecture document is actually not available. EMF Facet is actually is not much more than a copy of MoDisco, the http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/Architecture MoDisco architecture document can then be used to understand the EMF Facet architecture.

Testing & Packaging

EMF Facet uses a Buckminster-based system to build and promote versions.
Each new build is tested at least with Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo).
Core plugins are provided with dedicated test plugins checking their valid behavior.
EMF Facet is integrated into the Indigo Release Train.

Tool Usability

End-of-Life

Some elements from the EMF Facet (copied from MoDisco) have been deprecated.

Bugzilla

  • Bugs (snapshot taken on the 26th of May 2011):
  • Enhancement requests (snapshot taken on the 16th of May 2011):

Standards

UI Usability

EMF Facet intends to conform to the User Interface Guidelines. The missing points to be fixed in the next version are summarized in http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMFFacet_UI_issues.

Schedule

EMF Facet is a "+2" project in the simultaneous release


M4	12/14/2010
M5	02/01/2011	
M6	03/15/2011	API freeze
M7	05/03/2011	Feature Freeze
RC1	05/17/2011	
RC2	05/24/2011	
RC3	05/31/2011	
RC4	06/07/2011		
Indigo	06/22/2011

Communities

Committer Changes

Frederic Madiot has moved from Mia-Software to Obeo. Gabriel Barbier has moved from Mia-Software to Thales.

IP Issues

The Eclipse IP Process has been strictly followed and all plugins contain the appropriate about.html and license files.
The EMF Facet IP Log is available from http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=modeling.emft.emf-facet

  • Some third-party libraries are used (cf. corresponding validated CQs)

All EMF Facet content is released under EPL.

Project Plan

The current project plan is available from http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=modeling.emft.emf-facet.

This next EMF Facet version will imply:

  • Upgrades on the various existing components (e.g. bug fixing, performance increase, etc);
  • Final migration of the Facet and Customization mechanisms from the MoDisco project to the EMF Facet project.

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