MDT/UML2/New and Noteworthy/Photon

M4 (December 11)

General

• A release record has been created for the 5.4.0 release and UML2 has declared participation in the Photon simultaneous release, with an offset of +1.

• A number of updates have been made based on changes in EMF; see bugs 428088, 485764, 519582, and 522658 for details. Source code for the UML metamodel was regenerated based on the latest templates and code generator behaviour.

• The UML2 5.4.0 M4 build has been contributed to the Photon release train.

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M5 (January 29)

General

• The UML2 build system has been migrated from Buckminster to Tycho (see bug 526568) based on a generous contribution from Ed Willink. In conjunction with this migration, explicit dependency versions were added to bundle metadata (see bug 526679) and some tests were refactored (see bug 528450).

• Gerrit has been set up for contributions to the UML2 project; see bug 529533 for details and information on how to get started with Gerrit.

• A number of updates have been made based on changes in EMF; see bugs 522703, 529487, and 530555 for details. Source code for the UML metamodel was regenerated based on the latest templates and code generator behaviour.

• The UML2 5.4.0 M5 build has been contributed to the Photon release train.

Enhancements

• A new “Operations Folder” option has been added to the UML2 code generator for models (see bug 529044). This option allows operations classes to be located in a different source folder (relative to the model project directory) from the rest of the generated code.

• A new ‘package’ element has been added to the org.eclipse.uml2.uml.generated_package extension point (see bug 529564). This new element allows the generated Ecore representation for an arbitrary UML package (one that isn’t a profile) to be registered and subsequently looked up via the UMLUtil#getNamedElement(ENamedElement, EObject) utility method.

• The performance of some stereotype application operations has been improved (see bug 528925). Note that, with this change, the following methods have been deprecated by newer versions with an additional Stereotype parameter:
  • UMLUtil#applyStereotype(Element, EClass)
  • UMLUtil.StereotypeApplicationHelper#applyStereotype(Element, EClass)
  • UMLUtil.StereotypeApplicationHelper#addToContainmentList(Element, EObject)
  • UMLUtil.StereotypeApplicationHelper#getContainmentList(Element, EClass)
  • UMLUtil.StereotypeApplicationHelper#removeFromContainmentList(Element, EObject)

Bug Fixes

• An problem with loading certain legacy models has been addressed by ensuring that the standalone UML resources utility registers the UML source models with the URI converter during initialization; see bug 526217 for details.

• An illegal constant (TimeUnit.MINUTES, which isn’t available in Java 5) has been removed from one of the unit tests; see bug 529547 for details.

M6 (March 12)

General

• UML2 build jobs have been migrated from Hudson to Jenkins (see bug 530650). Some obsolete parameters for publishing builds were removed in the process (see bug 530550).

• A number of updates have been made based on changes in EMF; see bugs 342235, 438123, 530555, 531027, and 531034 for details. Source code for the UML metamodel was regenerated based on the latest templates and code generator behaviour.

Enhancements

• An Oomph setup has been provided for UML2, thanks to a contribution from Ed Merks; see bug 532169 for details.

Bug Fixes

• An issue with serializing activity groups and nodes to binary format has been fixed; see bug 528762 for details.

M7 (May 14)

General

• A number of updates have been made based on changes in EMF. Source code for the UML metamodel was regenerated based on the latest templates and code generator behaviour.

Enhancements

• The menu option for (re)applying profiles has been renamed to make it more clear that the option can be use to re-apply (and upgrade) a profile that’s already applied; see bug 529769 for details.

Bug Fixes

• Issues identified by the Oomph setup for UML2 have been fixed; see bug 532217 for details.

• Duplicate EAnnotation creation menu options were disambiguated and the UML editor was updated with the latest capabilities from EMF; see bug 533169 for details.