1.0.0
With this release the eTrice project leaves incubation. The main focus, as in the previous releases, has been laid on usability and stability. But we also overhauled the C++ runtime and generator to align with the architecture for Java as target language. Still it should be considered as prototype though.
The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".
- eTrice has been built on top of the popular EMF and Xtext and the new Graphiti framework.
- Emphasis has been laid on a simple and sound architecture. Continuous refactorings have been done to keep the architecture clear and concise.
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- Online documentation (Eclipse Help) is provided and available also in PDF form. The HTML pages can also be accessed from the eTrice Documentation page
- Several Tutorials are available from basic to more advanced and comprehensive.
- Tutorial code is shipped with the eTrice bundles and is easily installable to the user's workspace.
- From the very beginning simplicity of use has been a major goal of the eTrice project.
- ROOM as a modeling language allows the user to solve typical problems of the development of highly concurrent real-time systems on a higher level of abstraction.
- All editors, textual and graphical, are simple to use and designed to support a fast development.
- The tutorials have been re-worked and simplified
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- The modeling language ROOM is not standardized in a strict and formal way but was published in [1].
- [1] defines a graphical notation which was adopted.
- [1] also contains a textual notation. But this is incomplete and we decided to develop our own notation based on this.
[1] Bran Selic, Garth Gullekson, Paul T. Ward: Real-Time Object Oriented Modeling, New York: John Wiley, 1994 (ISBN 0-471-59917-4)
Since its start in October 2010 the project has won four additional committers and several contributors. Three Google Summer of Code and one bachelor student had projects related to eTrice. Talks have been given on a number of conferences. eTrice is already used as part of the tool chain in industry projects. Up to now eTrice users and developers mainly use direct communication. Therefore the newsgroup and the development mailing list are only rarely used.