January 2012
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Maven integration in Acceleo
With the release of the new Acceleo stand alone front end for the compilation of Acceleo modules, I’ve started to work on a brand new maven integration in Acceleo.
Currently in Acceleo, if you need to build Acceleo modules with maven you have to use a Tycho based build with a java class generated by Acceleo to tweak the build (for example to register the metamodel(s) used in the modules)....
November 2011
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Slides from EclipseCon Europe 2011
For those of you looking for the Acceleo presentation that I’ve realized last week during EclipseCon Europe 2011, you can now find it online.
I have also put online the presentation that I’ve done during the Eclipse Modeling symposium on the new Interpreter view available in Acceleo 3.2. A video of this presentation during the symposium is available on Dailymotion.
And now, after...
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EclipseCon Europe Day 3
On the latest day of EclipseCon Europe 2011, several presentations marked the day. Starting with the first european presentation of Mylyn Intent. Intent is a documentation tool letting you keep your documentation synchronized with your code and define validation rules to ensure that your work follows the development guidelines of your project. If you ever had a synchronization problem between your...
EclipseCon Europe Day 2
During this second day of the EclipseCon Europe, several great talks were given, I won’t describe all of them but I’ll talk about some innovations from the modeling community that were presented yesterday.
The collaborative modeling talk highlighted several concerns that need to be handled by the modeling community to build a modern modeling development environment.
As such,...
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EclipseCon Europe Day 1
Yesterday started the 2011 edition of EclipseCon Europe. It was a great opportunity to attend very nice talks. Unfortunately everybody cannot be there so here is a small description of the talks that I’ve seen along with links for those who want to know more.
As an Eclipse modeling guy, I’ve started the day with the EMF tutorial in which newcomers to the EMF world could learn what EMF...
October 2011
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Acceleo 3.2 has been released
Acceleo 3.2 has been officially released today, you can grab it from the Eclipse Marketplace, the modeling discovery UI or with the Acceleo 3.2.x update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/acceleo/updates/releases/3.2
In this version, you will be able to see several performance improvements in the tooling and the compilation along with a brand new view in the Acceleo perspective, the...
June 2011
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What's new in Acceleo 3.1
Acceleo 3.1 has been released yesterday as part of the Eclipse 3.7 Indigo release train. So let’s have a look at some of the new features available in this release.
Language improvements
Support for documentation for templates, queries and modules.
Support for TODO and FIXME
Tooling improvements
Improved real time error detections with new errors detected and warning support.
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Code Generation 2011 and Acceleo 3.0.5
Code Generation 2011
Three weeks ago I was at Cambridge for Code Generation 2011. The conference was great and I had the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting persons. I also presented a talk about Acceleo 3 and Obeo Traceability 2. The presentation has been created by re-using code from Google and since it is based on some of the latest features of HTML5, I strongly recommend Chrome to have...
Acceleo 3.1, Maven and Tycho
Among all the new features available in Acceleo 3.1, you will be able to find a new system to compile and build an Acceleo generator. You could already use the Eclipse system based on PDE already described here but now with Acceleo 3.1, you will have the opportunity to build your generator thanks Maven to with the introduction of a Tycho based build.
In order to build an Acceleo generator with...
April 2011
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A new direction for Acceleo
Things will change
For our next release, we want to change the way we consider Acceleo. We have always seen Acceleo as a code generator with a great tooling that we are improving year after year with new features. But this has to stop, we don’t want Acceleo to be just a software with a version number that help you with your work, we want to do more than that, we want to be more than that....
February 2011
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Acceleo at the Topcased Days 2011
Last Friday, I was at Toulouse for the first edition of the Topcased Days. During this conference, I had the opportunity to realize a presentation of Acceleo 3. This was a huge success and this was a great occasion to meet lots of Acceleo users. I had a great time seeing presentations from Acceleo users and watching how they are using Acceleo to generate code for satellites, planes etc. The...
August 2010
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User interface improvements in Acceleo 3.1
Three weeks ago, I started to work on some new features for the next release of Acceleo next year. Jonathan and Laurent told me to use Acceleo as a regular user and to find any feature that would be missing. Quickly I had some ideas to improve Acceleo and I started to work on some of them.
In Acceleo 3, we have a system to report errors to the user with red markers in the editor. Starting with...
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Introduction
An introduction, that’s a good way to start a blog, isn’t it ? So, my name is Stéphane Bégaudeau and I’m a software developer, I am currently living in Nantes in France. I’m creating software for a French company named Obeo, a strategic member of the Eclipse foundation, which produce applications based on the Eclipse IDE. To be more precise I’m working on the...