OCL/New and Noteworthy/Juno

Eclipse OCL New and Noteworthy items for the Juno 4.0.0 release.

Release Overview

Ecore and UML

The core Ecore and UML functionality is substantially unchanged.

• bug fixes including
  • deep static operation overload resolution
  • optional dynamic operation dispatch for evaluation
• additional Collection library iterations
  • selectByKind, selectByType
• missing OCL 2.2 String library operations
  • +, at, characters, indexOf, substring
• additional String library operations
  • endsWith, lastIndexOf, startsWith, substituteAll, substituteFirst, tokenize
• additional String library regex operations
  • matches, replaceAll, replaceFirst
• Window->Preference page for options

Pivot Examples

The examples Pivot functionality is steadily evolving towards UML alignment

• as above as for Ecore and UML
• experimental Direct to Java Code Generation
  • see the Code Generation Tutorial in the OCL Documentation
• Complete OCL documents can be loaded into other modeling tools
  • see the Complete OCL Tutorial in the OCL Documentation

Milestone 1

Project

• 349114 GIT is now used to manage source code

Language

• 349125 OclSelf introduced
• 350894 URI namespace qualification introduced

Editors

• 353519 Markups in comments introduced

OCLinEcore Editor

• 353793 Inter-resource references no longer lost on load
• 354210 Initial module declaration no longer necessary
• 354290 Package reference errors after editing fixed
• 354336 Source-less EAnnotations supported

Ecore

• 352964 EcoreEvaluationEnvironment extensible for QVTo collections
• 353171 NPE for solitary Query delegate

Pivot

• 349758 PrettyPrinter introduced

Milestone 2

The MDT/UML2 project now supports UML 2.4 and so Eclipse OCL is therefore also now based on UML 2.4.

OCLinEcore Editor

• 351578 Inherited constraints no longer ignored
• 355471 Distinct SaveAS/SaveIn Ecore introduced

Pivot

• 354907 Polymorphic int/long/BigInteger values introduced
• 355790 Duplicate TypeManager registrations eliminated

Milestone 3

This new direct OCL 2 Java Code Generator Component supports genmodelling of direct Java code for OCL delegate annotations giving a major perfotmance improvement, typically 5 to 50 times improvmenet in evaluation speed and eliminating the run-time costs of OCL parsing. The Code Generator is packaged in the separate OCL Tools feature since it has a dependency on Acceleo which has a dependency on OCL-ecore.

OCLinEcore Editor

• 328288 reference keyword added for EAnnotation references
• 358915 /** */ Comments persist as GenModel documentation EAnnotations
• 362620 Nested packages prefixes no longer corrupted on load

Ecore

• 324765 Delegate initialization routine added
• 360072 'pivot' as well as 'ecore' OCL delegates can be intermixed

Pivot

TypeManager has been renamed as MetaModelManager, but remains as a deprecated subclass.

• 324765 Delegate initialization routine added
• 349962 Moniker-based synchronization replaced by CS URIs
• 349964 All Values have a type
• 352950 Numeric down-casts are now errors
• 360072 'pivot' as well as 'ecore' OCL delegates can be intermixed

Code Generator

• 279638 Code generator introduced

Milestone 4

Pivot

• 351512 collect() now provides a flattened return type
• 358713 ecore::EByte, EByteObject, EChar, ECharacterObject supported

Milestone 5

Ecore

• 363638 Delegate memory leakage addressed

Pivot

• 309459 selectByKind, selectByType added

Milestone 6

UI

• 360354 Workspace preferences introduced for OCL parsing and evaluation options

Ecore, UML

• 372908 Use of closure() no longer generates a warning by default

Complete OCL

• 368612 Complete OCL can be loaded into other editors

Editors

• 345282 Completion proposals are now generally available

Console (Xtext)

• 370397 Multi-line entry possible using Shift or Ctrl Enter

Milestone 7

Ecore, UML

• 378577 Overloads now resolve to best rather than first match
• 377374 import statements ignored in Complete OCL for pivot compatibility
• 367822 Dynamic dispatch evaluation option added
• 350493 Internal Ecore implementation of Tuple reuses UML approach
• 344368 Long generally useable in place of Integer

Pivot

• 378205 Datatypes can be constructed and serialised toString
• 373289 String::tokenize() added

OCLinEcore

• 362517 Ecore.ecore loadable again

RC1

Ecore

• 364797 http://www.eclipse.org/ocl/1.1.0/oclstdlib.ecore no longer times out

OCLinEcore

• 363273 Save of bad *.oclinecore as *.ecore prevented

SR1

Eclipse OCL New and Noteworthy items for the Juno 4.0.1 SR1 release.

SR2

Eclipse OCL New and Noteworthy items for the Juno 4.0.2 SR2 release.