Eclipse Papyrus 4.5.0

Papyrus has for the version 4.5:

Improve ElementType framework configuration usage

• Analysis the performance of the ElementType creation command.
  • ElementType performance is already optimized while lasting at last only 1.5 to 2 times longer than UML plain commands while providing the advanced customization facilities.
• All Helpers and Advices have been reviewed in order to validate their behavior. Everything is ok.
• Use cases of the ElementType framework have been reversed and formalized in order to be able soon to provide a detailed documentation. First use case description committed can be found in the plug-in plug-in to unregister a helper advices.

Diagram editor improvement

• Correction of bugs in the sequence diagram editor.
• Improvement of Activity Diagram editor UX (drop strategy, and major bugs have been fixed).

Property view improvement

• Fix minor property view for elements.
• Manage the stereotypes properties with SetStereotypeValueRequest instead of SetRequest for the properties view. With this, we can use element types of stereotype properties.
• Add new tests on DataBinding elements in order to increase code coverage.

Add New Example Models

• User example models now can be created by the menu example.

Improve ModelToDoc feature

• Create the version 0.7.0.
• Modification of menus.
• New possibility to generate a document in one step.
• Documentation has been written.
• A rich example and an empty template have been provided to the user.

Other topics

• Modification of resource notification for save in order manage save of big models.