Eclipse UML Generators/Specification/UserInterface/ConsistencyImprovement

Evolution Specification: User interface consistency improvement

Current status is DRAFT

Preamble

This is a proposal to improve the user interface consistency.

Relevant tickets:

• Bug 449080 - User interface consistency improvement

Introduction

The goal of this ticket is to make the user interface coherent for all the possible generations:

• context menus;
• generation builders;
• properties pages;
• preferences pages.

Detailed Specification

Launch generation

Java and RTSJ generation are launched on UML files and C generation is launched on UML Elements (classes, packages...).

From UML model

Currently, Java is generated with an Acceleo launcher

and RTSJ is launched with context menus

All generations can be launched in the same context menu: a menu "UML Generators".

From UML elements

C generation is directly launched in the context menu. As Java generation, the "UML Generators" menu is added for consistency.

C reverse actions

There are two menu actions to add and remove the C2UML nature from C projects. They currently are in the context menu "Convert" witch is used to convert projects in a nature. No update will be done for this.

Backward Compatibility and Migration Paths

Metamodel Changes

This evolution does not change any meta-models.

API Changes

This evolution does not change any API.

User Interface Changes

Read the Sirius User Manual to learn how to handle these interfaces.

Specifically, have a look on the use of Modeling Projects and Representations concepts and the handle of the Diagram Editors.

Documentation Changes

A new user manual should be made.

Tests and Non-regression strategy

This part of the document should describe the strategy to use to correctly test the evolution and guarantee the non-regression.

Implementation choices and tradeoffs

Any important tradeoff or choice made during the implementation should be referenced here with pros/cons leading to the final decision.