Eclipse OCL (Object Constraint Language) 3.0.0

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Deliverables

The release deliverables for the MDT OCL 3.0 release has the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:

  • MDT OCL SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • MDT OCL runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • MDT OCL stand-alone binary distribution (downloadable).
  • MDT OCL tests (downloadable)
  • MDT OCL examples (downloadable)

MDT OCL 3.0.0 source code will be available as versions tagged "R3_0" in the project's CVS repository.

Compatibility

The MDT OCL 3.0 project will be developed in parallel, and released simultaneously, with the following projects.

  • Eclipse Platform SDK version 3.6
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.6
  • Model Development Tools (MDT) UML2 version 3.1

As described above, the MDT OCL 3.0.0 release is not fully backwards compatible with the MDT OCL 1.2 and 1.3 releases.

A guide aimed to help users to migrate from MDT OCL 1.3 releases to MDT OCL 3.0.0 release will be provided.

Internationalization

The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by the Eclipse SDK components, including dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles. As a result, the MDT OCL project will provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a subset of those locales offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to indicate which locales will be provided and the time frame for availability.

Target Environments

In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments. The Eclipse Object Constraint Language (MDT OCL) project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. The 3.6 release of the Eclipse Platform Project is written and compiled against version 5.0 of the Java Platform APIs, and targeted to run on version 5.0 of the Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition. MDT OCL will target the same Java version as EMF and UML2, which currently require Java 5. Eclipse Platform SDK 3.6 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. MDT OCL will be tested and validated against a subset of those listed for the platform.

Themes

Compliance

This theme addresses issues related to the OMG OCL 2.2 standard adoption. The bugs related to the inherited deviations of the MDT OCL implementation from the OCL 2.0 standard (and consequently, OCL 2.2) also appear here.
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Release Currency

The MDT OCL project will maintain currency with its dependencies, in particular with the EMF and MDT UML2 projects. OCL grammar will be migrated to LPG v2.
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Usability

This theme addresses the need for extensibility and usability improvements of the MDT OCL language implementation and APIs.
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This release is part of Helios