The modeling symposium at EclipseCon Europe 2016 takes place on Wednesday, October 26th from 17.45pm-18.20pm (see here). I’m happy to present the agenda of selected talks: Exploring the Future of Eclipse Modeling: Web and Semantic Collaboration - István Ráth (7 Minutes) The Genmodel Addon project - Olivier Prouvost (5 Minutes) App-up in 5 minutes - Jörg Riegel (10 Minutes) Generating Visual Studio Code extensions for Xtext DSLs ...
Read MoreBonjour, we are delighted to announce, that EclipseSource goes France! For years, France and Germany have been hotspots for topics such as Modeling, EMF, Papyrus, and, more generally, Eclipse. Many of our current business relations bring us together. Therefore, having an office in France is the next logical step. Additionally, we are happy to announce that this office will be led by a well-known face in...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that together with Neon, we have released EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.10.0! We want to thank all committers and contributors for their work as well as the active ecosystem of users and adopters for the feedback and support! Both projects have been amazing successes since their inception over 5 years ago. We are proud of having a continuously active...
Read MoreOomph is a great tool to automate Eclipse installations, workspace setups, and more. Projects can configure profiles (called “setup models”) and thereby allow contributors to get an IDE to work on the project with a single click. This includes all necessary plugins to be installed, preferences, a git clone, the project import, and even more. If you want to configure your own custom setup model for...
Read MoreAs described in our previous post, we maintain a common Eclipse Oomph Profile with our favorite plugins and settings preconfigured. By using Oomph, you can install this version of Eclipse with a single click. See here for a more thorough introduction and how to install the pre-configured Eclipse. As promised, we will describe the things we adapted and added to the standard Eclipse Packages. In the...
Read MoreAfter several busy weeks, the PC has finally selected the talks and tutorials for EclipseCon Europe 2016. I would like to thank all members of the PC for their great work and all submitters for their proposals. I am sorry we had to reject so many talks. We tried hard to provide a meaningful declined comment, so that people might understand our reasoning. In some cases,...
Read MoreWith Neon, we released EMF Forms 1.9.0. EMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms which edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we wish to outline one major highlight of release 1.9.0: a new version of the Ecore editor and a generic editor based on EMF Forms. If you...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that Philip, Ed and I are organizing the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon Europe 2016. Please support us by sharing the call on your communication channels. The symposium aims to provide a forum for community members to present a brief overview of their work. We offer 10 minute lightning slots (including questions) to facilitate a broad range of speakers. The primary goal is...
Read MoreIn the last years we have been heavily using JSON Schema, a web standard to describe JSON instances/your data in web applications. For example in the JSONForms project we make heavy use of JSON Schema. JSONForms is an AngularJS-based framework to simplify the creation of forms for data entry and edit in web applications. It allows you to declaratively define the content and layout of a form and to embed...
Read MoreEclipse Neon was successfully released on June 22nd. Neon provides better performance and a variety of improvements. Therefore, we recommend to always update the IDE to the newest version. We updated the EclipseSource Oomph Profile accordingly, so, if you use our profile, all you need to do is restart your Eclipse IDE, and all updates will be applied for you. Please see here to learn...
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