Hello Antonio, you are right : we partially postponed our migration to GMF to the next major Topcased release (we target July 2009 for now). Our ECORE editor is now based on GMF, but not the other graphical editors, for several reasons :
- the migration to GMF is strongly related to the development of our next generation UML editor (namely Topcased Papyrus 2), and we started this work later than initially scheduled. Nevertheless, it is now in progress, and we will propose a first code bundle in the coming months. - some required features are still not part of GMF (as far as I know, we are still waiting for our patchs to be taken into account), making it very difficult, or impossible, to keep the features/look & feel of our tools. - as several TOPCASED partners are deploying some Topcased tools on industrial projects (UML, SAM, OCL, etc.), we focused most of our resources on the improvement of TOPCASED 1 than the development of a new generation of tools. TOPCASED 2 is therefore mainly an improvement of TOPCASED 1. In other words, for this time, we preferred stability and robustness to a new architecture. When it will be time, TOPCASED MF To GMF migration tools will be provided : your help is welcome on this topic. As for most of our tools, we need specifiers, developers, testers. Regarding the migration from TOPCASED 1 to TOPCASED 2, it should be quite straight-forward, but I am sure the TOPCASED MF team will give you more information about this. Regards, Le jeudi 31 juillet 2008 à 13:39 +0200, Antonio Cansado a écrit : > Hi, > We are currently developing a Component Editor using Topcased v1.2 > Modeling Framework. > We've been very pleased with the results we accomplished so far with > this technology. > > However, we are a bit doubtful about the future of the Topcased-MF. > Particularly, we expected > the stable release of Topcased v2.0 to migrate its technology to GMF. > I've seen the Topcased roadmap 2.0.12 and as far as I understand, at > least part of the migration > has been cancelled. I would really appreciate if you could comment on this. > > I also tried to convert the diagramconfigurator to GMF using Topcased's > built in facility. > The tool managed to create usable GMF-compliant files, however the > generated code > has compilation errors. > Concretely, the generated code has missing dependencies on > org.topcased.draw2d.figures . > Once I imported the package, it compiled well and I was able to > successfully launch an Eclipse session. > > Nevertheless, the "converted" editor is almost empty. The palette has > all items, but few of them are functional (can create objects in the > diagram). Moreover, the few of them that work create objects that have > dummy figures, and have empty attributes. Further, the objects cannot be > nested as expected. > > I don't know if I'm missing some required steps. I did not customize at > all the generated GMF diagram configuration. > Do you have some documentation on what the tool is able to convert, what > is missing, etc? > > Finally, do you have (or plan to have) documentation on the migration > from Topcased 1.x to 2.x? Or to GMF? > > Best regards, > Antonio > > -- > Antonio Cansado > Phd Student > INRIA Sophia Antipolis - OASIS project > > -- Pierre The information in this e-mail is confidential. The contents may not be disclosed or used by anyone other then the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Airbus immediately and delete this e-mail. Airbus cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this e-mail as it has been sent over public networks. If you have any concerns over the content of this message or its Accuracy or Integrity, please contact Airbus immediately. All outgoing e-mails from Airbus are checked using regularly updated virus scanning software but you should take whatever measures you deem to be appropriate to ensure that this message and any attachments are virus free. _______________________________________________ Topcased-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr/mailman/listinfo/topcased-users
