Revision as of 13:56, 14 July 2011

This work is developed by Tasktop Technologies and sponsored by Ericsson in the context of the Modeling Platform Industrial Working Group

Proposal

In order to enhance the productivity, integration and traceability benefits of Mylyn, and the task-focused interface, Tasktop technologies proposes to create Mylyn Modeling Integration for UML models in open source Papyrus. This section provides an overview of the scope of the integrations and screenshots are provided as rough examples of the functionality to be provided. The generic term “task” is used to refer to application lifecycle management artifacts such as defects, user stories and feature requests. Estimates include design, implementation, testing and release engineering.

Context Bridge for EMF Models

In order to bring the productivity benefits of the task-focused interface to engineers using Eclipse-based modeling technologies, Tasktop will create a “Context Bridge” for EMF-based models and diagram editors. The result of this will be a focused mode for diagrams that shows only the elements related to the task-at-hand, dramatically reducing information overload for engineers working on large models. In addition, the task-focused interface extensions will provide Mylyn’s one-click multitasking facilities for working with models, ensuring that engineers can instantly recover from interruptions, and share model-specific expertise, when working with models in addition to what Mylyn already provides for engineers working with source code.

This feature is a new technology, that to date has only been discussed in Kersten’s PhD thesis and implemented by David Green, Tasktop’s VP of Engineering, for model-driven development diagrams based on a model similar to, but not based on, EMF.^[1]

High-Level Tasks

EMF Context Bridge

Integration between the EMF Ecore model with the Mylyn Context degree-of-interest model.

• EMF-1: identity of Ecore elements is integrated with task context
• EMF-2: relationships and containment are mapped to the degree-of-interest graph
• EMF-3: degree-of-interest model elements updated on refactoring of model, for active task
• EMF-4: contexts with refactored model elements are updated when loaded, eg, using refactoring history

GEF Diagram Focusing

Support for user interface focusing and one-click multitasking facilities for models and diagrams^[2] .

• FOCUS-1: creation of figure filter, highlighter and layout for focused diagrams
• FOCUS-2: degree-of-interest based view updated and model change notification integration
• FOCUS-3: Ecore model focusing for Common Navigators
• FOCUS-4: APIs for GEF figure focusing for downstream editors
• FOCUS-5: usage tracking for Ecore model and GEF diagram editing and navigation
• FOCUS-6: editor mementos are restored on task-reactivation
• FOCUS-7: quick/in-place view of model elements in context
• FOCUS-8: focus support for EMF models in GMF for UML models in Papyrus.

Bugzilla

Project related bugs can be found here. Please share your feedback and ideas there or on the Mylyn forums.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc=%5Bmodeling%5D;resolution=---;query_format=advanced;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr;component=Experiments;product=Mylyn%20Incubator

Git Repos

(There isn't very much here yet.)

URL: http://git.eclipse.org/c/mylyn/org.eclipse.mylyn.incubator.git Projects: org.eclipse.mylyn.emf.*

Schedule (dates tentative)

Current schedule calls for a release on August 31. We'll update here as various functionality becomes available for testing.

Project Communication

Please use: <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/mylyn-incubator-dev">mylyn-incubator-dev@eclipse.org</a>. Discussion also on EMFT-dev.

Team

• Miles Parker for Tasktop
• Benjamin Muskalla Tasktop (Emeritus)

References