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=Helios Release Review - Acceleo 3.0=
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=Release review=
'''Helios Simultaneous Release'''
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'''Release Review and Graduation Review'''
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* [[Acceleo/ReleaseReview/Helios| Acceleo 3.0 Release Review]]
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* [[Acceleo/ReleaseReview/Indigo| Acceleo 3.1 Release Review]]
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* [[Acceleo/ReleaseReview/3.2| Acceleo 3.2 Release Review]]
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* [[Acceleo/ReleaseReview/3.3| Acceleo 3.3 Release Review]]
  
Jonathan Musset ''(jonathan.musset@obeo.fr)''
 
 
Release Review : June 11, 2010
 
 
''Communication Channel : eclipse.modeling.m2t newsgroup''
 
 
''Process Documentation : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process.php''
 
 
''Project Plan : http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-helios.xml''
 
 
==Helios Release Highlights==
 
 
===Graduation===
 
Acceleo graduates with its Helios release. This usually means the plugin grows from version 0.x to version 1.0. However, Acceleo already has a version history and an existing adopter community. In order not to unsettle this community and to stay coherent with our history, Acceleo will jump under eclipse from version 0.8 to version 3.0 (as the last released version on Acceleo.org was 2.x).
 
 
===New and noteworthy===
 
 
- Tooling improvements
 
  New views have been introduced to help you on several aspects of the generation cycles
 
  The Result view to get feedback on the traceability information
 
  The Overrides view to easily create templates overriding others
 
 
  Acceleo now provides a built-in profiler, an advanced debugger and a stack trace mechanism for runtime exceptions
 
 
  Acceleo 3.0 is compatible with Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) and Eclipse 3.6 (Helios)
 
 
- Editor Improvements
 
  Performance improvements
 
 
  Basic refactoring actions
 
  The usual shortcuts (ALT+SHIFT+R) to rename either modules, templates, queries, variables...
 
 
  Portions of text can be extracted as new templates
 
 
  The editor now highlights all occurrences of the selected element
 
 
  Quickfixes are available to fix compilation issues by creating new module elements
 
 
  New menus and quick fixes to wrap Java extension points (Java services)
 
 
  Bottom-up approach when developing generators
 
  Initialize the content of the generator with an example
 
  Specific actions to transform an example in dynamic OCL expressions
 
 
- Improvements on the language
 
  Full MTL/OCL standard library implementation
 
 
  Build mode, either Strict or Lax MTL compliance
 
 
  Migration facilities for those who own Acceleo 2.x templates
 
 
===Quality of APIs===
 
The component lead certifies that the requirements for Eclipse Quality APIs have been met for this release.
 
All non-API code is in "internal" packages.
 
 
===End of Life Issues===
 
None
 
 
===Committer Diversity===
 
4 Committers from Obeo, and 2 individual committers.
 
 
==IP Issues==
 
The about files and use licenses are in place as per the Guidelines to Legal Documentation.
 
 
CQ 2518 - The Content includes items that have been sourced from the OMG MTL 1.0 specification : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/
 
 
All other contributions (code, documentation, images, etc) have been committed by individuals who are either Members of the Foundation, or have signed the appropriate Committer Agreement. In either case, these are individuals who have signed, and are abiding by, the Eclipse IP Policy. The other contributions of the IP log are not significant or are written 100% by employees of the same employer (Obeo) as the Submitting Committer (http://www.eclipse.org/legal/EclipseLegalProcessPoster.pdf).
 
 
All contribution Questionnaires have been completed.
 
 
The "provider" field of each plugin is set to "Eclipse Modeling Project".
 
 
The "copyright" field of each plugin is set to the copyright owner.
 
 
Any third-party logos or trademarks included in the distribution (icons, logos, etc) have been licensed under the EPL.
 
 
The Acceleo IP log is located at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ip_log.php?projectid=modeling.m2t.acceleo
 
 
==Non-Code Aspects==
 
 
===Unit tests===
 
706 unit tests launched on every build. 1219 unit tests launched every day.
 
 
Code coverage is about :
 
71 % of the code generation engine
 
84 % of the compiler
 
29 % of the UI
 
 
===Code quality===
 
Checkstyle activated on each distinct plug-in.
 
 
Eclemma used on a regular basis to improve test coverage.
 
 
Yourkit used on a regular basis to improve performances.
 
 
Javadoc represents more than 46% of the Java source code.
 
 
An Ohloh page is available at http://www.ohloh.net/p/acceleo-eclipse/analyses/latest
 
 
==APIs==
 
Metamodel definitions and interfaces are considered APIs.
 
 
Commitment to provide stand-alone code generation.
 
 
Non-API classes are separated from the exposed API through an "internal" namespace.
 
 
API Tooling is activated on all plugins to mark exceptions within the exposed API.
 
 
==Documentation==
 
The documentation that comes with Acceleo 3.0 is available in the Help menu : Acceleo Model To Text Transformation Language.
 
 
Each document of the documentation set deals with a different aspect of mastering Acceleo :
 
There are a Plug-in Overview, a Quick Start, an Android Code Generation Tutorial, a User Guide, several short tutotials to create code generation projects, an Acceleo/OCL operations reference to describe the Acceleo/OCL library, and a Text Production Rules document.
 
 
The main documentation is the User Guide because it fully describes each and every feature of Acceleo. From the installation to the execution with a trip through the editing features, it gives an in-depth description of everything there is to know about Acceleo.
 
 
Basic Examples are available in the example category : UML to Java, and Ecore to Python.
 
 
There is also a basic information page on the Eclipse Wiki http://wiki.eclipse.org/Acceleo
 
 
==Bugzilla==
 
 
[[Image:Bugzilla.png]]
 
 
Note : these figure is subject to change as the whole team is in the process of fixing bugs until the final release (this snapshot has been taken on May 26, 2010)‏
 
 
==Tool usability==
 
Localization : integrated into Babel
 
 
==Standards==
 
This implementation of Acceleo is based on the OMG MOF Model-To-Text OMG Standard : http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/
 
 
==End of Life==
 
There are no specific end of life concerns for this release.
 
 
==Communities==
 
Talks have been given on the following events:
 
 
Acceleo at Eclipse Con 2010 : [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1165 Acceleo Code Generation - Let's start with an Android example] and [http://www.obeo.fr/videos/acceleo-eclipse/eclipse-modeling-runaway-acceleo.htm Acceleo at Eclipse Modeling Runaway 2010]
 
 
Acceleo at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 : [http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/sessions?id=971 From Acceleo.org to Eclipse Modeling]
 
 
Acceleo at Eclipse Con 2009 : [http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=387 a Real Standard Alternative for Code Generation]
 
 
Activity on the M2T newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.m2t)
 
308 messages on Acceleo from June 2009 to May 2010
 
 
==Schedule==
 
Since the feature freeze our commitment was to follow the EMF and the MDT OCL builds as closely as possible.
 
 
Acceleo 3.0 Release Plan
 
M1 08/18/2009
 
M2 09/29/2009
 
M3 11/10/2009
 
M4 12/15/2009
 
M5 02/02/2010
 
M6 03/16/2010
 
M7 05/04/2010
 
RC1 05/18/2010
 
RC2 05/25/2010
 
RC3 06/01/2010
 
RC4 06/08/2010
 
Final 06/16/2010
 
3.0 06/23/2010
 
 
==Project Plan==
 
The Helios project plan is available at http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/plan-helios.xml
 
 
What's next?
 
- E4 Compatibility
 
- Macro support
 
- Full compatibility with ATL
 
- Improve the bottom-up approach when developing generators
 
- Advanced quick fixes
 
- Improve the JUnit tests coverage on the UI
 
- "On file close" support
 
- Compatibility with the next OMG specification version
 
 
==Legal Notices==
 
Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Oracle, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.
 
 
UML, OMG, EMOF, OCL and XMI are trademarks of the Object Management Group.
 
 
Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
 
  
  

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