EclipseCon proposals

EclipseCon 2012 deadline is tonight, we have at Atos Toulouse submit 3 proposals presenting our different Eclipse activities.

• MDT Papyrus usage in industrial context - sharing feedback with community
• This talk is a good opportunity for community to have feedbacks of industrials of MDT Papyrus usage.
• BIRT for reporting ... what about documentation ? Here comes Gendoc2 !
• BIRT everybody knows, why do we need another tool to generate documentation ? Because the task is different and industrials have of course reporting expectations but the also need a documentation compliant with the Quality Kit of the company.
• FCDT, formal proof integration in CDT using Codan and XText
• This talk will present how the CDT has been extended to provide an open source formal proof IDE using a powerful static analysis tool (Frama-C)

These 3 proposals are a good summary of the Eclipse work of Atos Toulouse : focusing on embedded project lifecycle, our job is to give solutions and support to industrials in the descending and ascending phases.

TOPCASED 5.1.0 available

TOPCASED 5.1.0 is now available. It is based on the latest Eclipse 3.7.1 platform (Indigo).

TOPCASED has been release this is the official mail sent to the community:

"Dear TOPCASED users,

TOPCASED 5.1.0 is now available. It is based on the latest Eclipse 3.7 SR1 platform (Indigo).

Note: the official announce on website is not yet present ( will be available on Monday morning) but the “download” link already targets the 5.1.0 release.

Previous TOPCASED 5.0.0 release introduced integration of Eclipse MDT papyrus editors (UML&SysmL) but those editors were not mature.

There has been a lot of work done to fix all major issues and those editors can now be considered as “usable” in TOPCASED 5.1.0.

For any new project we recommend that you have a look at those editors as they provide strong ergonomics improvements (in reference to previous TOPCASED editors), a better support of UML& SysML specification and a very good support for profile customization.

For existing models, we recommend that you continue to use former UML and SysML TOPCASED editors as there is not yet automatic transformation between former graphical format and Papyrus one. This transformation is in progress and should be available in TOPCASED 5.2.0 (planned for January).

Note: You will find two different perspectives to distinguish former and new editors for UML and SysML.

You can download the RCP version, features and the release note at the following link : http://www.topcased.org/index.php?idd_projet_pere=52&Itemid=60 and the Linux

You can also install TOPCASED 5.1.0 from the update-site : http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/indigo/release/topcased5.1

You can find more information on the official TOPCASED website: http://www.topcased.org/

A new section "Indicators" has been created to show statistics on some components.

Users support: Help is available through the 'Help > Help Contents' menu of TOPCASED. However if you have any questions, you can get support through the TOPCASED Users mailing list: topcased-users@lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr To be able to use the mailing-list, don't forget to subscribe to it, first.

Developers support: You may find information on the dedicated developers page of the TOPCASED official website. If you have any questions, you can also use the TOPCASED developers mailing list and sending your questions to: topcased-devel@lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr

Report a bug: To report a bug against TOPCASED, create a new entry on our bug tracker. You need to be logged on the site to be able to create an entry. * Ask for a new feature To ask for a new feature on TOPCASED, create a new entry on our feature tracker. You need to be logged on the site to be able to create an entry.

TOPCASED Contact TOPCASED is a collaborative project: if you are interested in helping in some aspects of our technical roadmap (or in extending it), you may contact us at topcased-contact@list.gforge.enseeiht.fr Your participation is welcome. Kind regards, The TOPCASED team"

TOPCASED 5.1.0 provides a lot of cool features, I will describe some of them bellow :

• Default documentation generation
  If your model does not contain "Rich text" documentation you can right click on your model and generate the documentation
  
  
  
• Palette Customization (stereotype application for example)
  This feature allows user to create elements with specific stereotype applied, or force the user to enter values at creation ...
  
• Requirement Traceability
  Import requirements from documents and create Traceability link to UML or SysML editor
  
• Export all diagrams
  Export all the diagrams contained in a model
  
• Advanced Label editors
  label edition with auto completion for model elements (in the screenshot, properties)
  
  

for more information about these feature you can consult documents section in TOPCASED web site : http://www.topcased.org/index.php?documentsSynthesis=y&Itemid=59

TOPCASED 5.0.0 available

TOPCASED 5.0.0 is now available.
It is based on the latest Eclipse 3.7 platform (Indigo), and it is the first official TOPCASED version containing MDT Papyrus. For this integration all the TOPCASED components have been adapted to support MDT Papyrus, it is now possible with MDT Papyrus to :

• generate documentation
• create Requirement traceability
• create Scripts for MDT Papyrus models

You can download the RCP version, features and the release note at the following link :
http://www.topcased.org/index.php?idd_projet_pere=52&Itemid=60

Windows, Linux and Mac OS versions are available

You can also install TOPCASED 5.0.0 from the update-site :
http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/indigo/release/topcased5.0.0/

You can find more information on the official TOPCASED website :
http://www.topcased.org/
A new section "Indicators" has been created to show statistics on some components.

• Users support:
  Help is available through the 'Help > Help Contents' menu of TOPCASED.
  However if you have any questions, you can get support through the TOPCASED Users mailing list: topcased-users@lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr
  To be able to use the mailing-list, don't forget to subscribe to it, first.
• Developers support:
  You may find information on the dedicated developers page of the TOPCASED official website.
  If you have any questions, you can also use the TOPCASED developers mailing list and sending your questions to: topcased-devel@lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr
• Report a bug:
  To report a bug against TOPCASED, create a new entry on our bug tracker.
  You need to be logged on the site to be able to create an entry.
• Ask for a new feature
  To ask for a new feature on TOPCASED, create a new entry on our feature tracker.
  You need to be logged on the site to be able to create an entry.
• TOPCASED Contact
  TOPCASED is a collaborative project: if you are interested in helping in some aspects of our technical roadmap (or in extending it), you may contact us at topcased-contact@list.gforge.enseeiht.fr
  Your participation is welcome.

Gendoc2 : New attribute to simplify debug

Why adding new ID attribute?

With next version of Gendoc2 (TOPCASED 5.0.0, July 2011), you can add an “Id” into each gendoc tags as an attribute.

It identifies the tag in the document, and allows tracing an error on the tag where it is declared in order to makes debugging easier. It captures most of the errors that can occur in a script. The ID can trace the following errors:

• Incomplete tags
• Script error
• Image not executed
  
• Configuration error

How to use ids?

The ID is used by writing the keyword “id” that assigns a string (of course between simple quotes) like this: <gendoc id='my id' >...</gendoc>
If during generation an error is found in one tag, its id will appear in the details of the warning message. Here are some screenshots to explain this:

The resulting error message allows to identify exactly which tag is in error:

Short Presentation

Hello
I am Malick Wade, a junior software engineer at Atos Origin. I work on the Eclipse platform Topcased.
I do for my internship some developments on Gendoc2.

New version of Gendoc2 is available

Gendoc2 news

Gendoc2 has been presented during the TOPCASED Days.
Presentation is available here

v1.3.0 available
New version of Gendoc2 is available :

• inside TOPCASED 4.3.0
  
  
• from Gendoc2 update site
  
  
• on Eclipse market place: installation is now fully available from Market place Client

What's new in v1.3.0 ?
This version includes a new external bundle for usage with Papyrus models.

Gendoc2 v1.2.0 is available

New version of Gendoc2 is available on the following update site : http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/release/market-place/gendoc2/update-site/

It provides support for GMF models, EPF models.
A new tag for insertion of rich text content is also available and generations can now be launched in batch mode.

New and existing features are described inside the following tutorial :
TPC_GenDoc2_v1.2.0_tutorial




Gendoc2 v1.2.0 is also available on Eclipse Marketplace