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Modeling Ganymede M7 Review
Revision as of 12:28, 14 May 2008 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk)
This wiki page contains the result of the Ganymede M7 Modeling Package review.
Platform: Mac OS X
Contents
Installation
- 257 MB (+104MB due to addition of SDKs) download extracts to 326MB (+143MB) on disk
- Not all sources are packaged in the new method
Startup
- Standard Eclipse splash and welcome page (should be updated with Modeling project artwork?)
- Initial perspective is Java (should be an AmalgamModelingPerspective?)
- CDO Weaver Notification pops up... apparently, enabled by default (best option?)
- Many source features report invalid discovery sites
228114Fixed post-M7 - M2M QVT OML missing branding elements 231908
- About dialog: all are using proper modeling image, though some issues:
- GMF and UML2 Tools (documentation only) features missing buildId token replacement (shows @buildId@) 231420 Fixed post-M7
- UML2 Tools diagram plug-in naming scheme is inconsistent (Activity, Deployment, and Use Case should be prefixed with 'UML2' as are the rest)
User Interface Contributions
- Menus
- See M6 notes
- New Dialog
- See M6 notes
- Show View dialog
- See M6 notes
UML Modeling
- See M6 notes
Additional Components
Returning to the ganymede update site to install the remaining components in the Models and Model Development category, the following additional observations were made.
Installation
- In Review Licenses, most projects use the March 17, 2005 version of the license file, with the following exceptions:
- Teneo, Net4J, and CDO use the January 28, 2004 version
- EMF Compare and ATL use a non-standard file
- Error on install using p2 231172:
An error occurred while collecting items to be installed Problems downloading artifact: osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.jet,0.9.0.v20080504. File has invalid content: /tmp/signatureFile25579.jar Invalid content: org/eclipse/jet/internal/xpath/functions/extras/SortFunction$XPathComparator.class The file "org/eclipse/jet/internal/xpath/functions/extras/SortFunction$XPathComparator.class" in the jar "/tmp/signatureFile25579.jar" has been tampered! Invalid content: org/eclipse/jet/internal/xpath/functions/extras/SortFunction$DescendingXPathComparator.class The file "org/eclipse/jet/internal/xpath/functions/extras/SortFunction$DescendingXPathComparator.class" in the jar "/tmp/signatureFile25579.jar" has been tampered!
- Install successful after deselecting JET features, but with the following warning logged on startup 231987:
eclipse.buildId=I20080502-0100 ... Warning Tue May 13 22:06:01 EDT 2008 A conflict occurred for COMMAND+SHIFT+U:Binding(COMMAND+SHIFT+U, ParameterizedCommand(Command(org.eclipse.jdt.ui.edit.text.java.search.occurrences.in.file.quickMenu,Show Occurrences in File Quick Menu, Shows the Occurrences in File quick menu, Category(org.eclipse.search.ui.category.search,Search,Search command category,true), , ,,true),null), org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration, org.eclipse.ui.contexts.window,,,system) Binding(COMMAND+SHIFT+U, ParameterizedCommand(Command(org.eclipse.uml2.search.common.ui.handlers.OpenFilteredUMLClassMetaElementSelectionDialogHandler,Open Filtered UML Classifier Meta-Elements Dialog, Open Filtered UML Classifier Meta-Elements Dialog, Category(org.eclipse.modeling.editors,Modeling Editors,Modeling Editors Commands,true), org.eclipse.uml2.search.common.ui.handlers.OpenFilteredUMLClassMetaElementSelectionDialogHandler, ,,true),null), org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration, org.eclipse.ui.contexts.window,,,system)
- When opening the Search dialog, several exceptions thrown 231988
- In View list, Ecore Tools views are found in Other, and not an Ecore category (or similar)
User Interface Contributions
As a general comment on UI contributions, it seems most projects are fond of using their project/component name or abbreviation. This does not always work well, e.g. 'Ecore Tools Diagram' where a more general name would be better, e.g. 'Ecore Diagram' (OK, so bad example as this name is used by the GMF diagram example).
- Net4j (?) contributes a 'Buddies' root category to the Preferences dialog.
- Several EMF/Ecore-related preferences would be better located under a common 'EMF' (or even 'Modeling') category. Specifically, 'Ecore Tools Diagram', 'EMF Compare', and 'Model Validation' all seem to be EMF-centric preferences.