Pierre, Thank you very much for the information. We will give a try migrating our code to Topcased 2 at some point, and at the same time we will start experimenting with GMF as well to get an idea of the strengths of each approach.
Regards, Antonio Pierre GAUFILLET wrote: > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Topcased-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr/mailman/listinfo/topcased-users
