Eclipse MoDisco 0.11.0

Release Date
Deliverables

The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:

  • MDT MoDisco SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, tests and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
Compatibility

Compatibility of Release 0.11: The MDT MoDisco project will be developed in parallel, and released simultaneously, with the following Eclipse projects. As stated above, each milestone release of the MDT MoDisco project will be compatible with the corresponding milestones for each of these projects, and delivered the appropriate offset.

  • Platform SDK version 4.3
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.9.0
  • EMF Connected Data Objects (CDO) version 4.2.0
  • EMF Compare version
  • EMF Query version 1.7.0
  • EMF Validation version
  • EMFT EMF Facet version 0.3.0
  • MDT UML2 version
  • MDT OCL version 4.1.0
  • M2M ATL version
  • M2T Acceleo version
  • Technology SWTBot version 2.0.4
  • Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) version 4.3.0
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 MoDisco project will provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a subset of those locales offered by the Platform.

Target Environments

In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments. The Eclipse MDT MoDisco project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. The 4.3 releases of the Eclipse Platform Project are 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 MoDisco will target the same Java version as EMF, which currently also requires Java 5. Eclipse Platform SDK 4.3 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. MDT MoDisco will be tested and validated against a subset of those listed for the platform.
This year we will try to make MoDisco compatible with Helios, because some potential users use old version of Eclipse.

Name Date Description
M1 2012/08/22
M2 2012/10/03
M3 2012/11/14
M4 2012/12/12
M5 2013/02/04
M6 2013/03/20 API Freeze
M7 2013/05/08 Feature Freeze
RC1 2013/05/22
RC2 2013/05/29
RC3 2013/06/05
RC4 2012/06/12
Kepler 2013/06/27
Themes

Restructuring

The MDT MoDisco project will be subject to some internal restructuring (already in progress) for several of its components to be finally migrated to the EMFT EMF Facet project. This migration will notably concern the Query Manager and Facet Manager components, parts of the Infrastructure layer. This theme is a priority to provide a stable release to all MoDisco users. That is why non critical bugs (e.g., some bugs concerning the other themes) will be fixed afterwards. Note also that the "deferred" bugs listed here will be then treated within the context of the EMFT EMF Facet project, once the migration of the corresponding components from MoDisco will be fully performed.
Committed Items
No items.
Proposed Items
No items.
Deferred Items
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Scalability

The MDT MoDisco project will be subject to several upgrades directly related to the improvement of scalability for its different components. This will include the increase of global performances (in terms of CPU time, memory footprint, etc), but also the more advanced support for (very) big EMF models.
Committed Items
No items.
Proposed Items
No items.
Deferred Items
No items.

Service, Support and Maintenance (general project and Infrastructure layer)

The MDT MoDisco project has a proven track record of quality and reliability. After restructuring, service and support will take priority over new development work; commitments and schedules are subject to arbitrary change, slippage, or even deferral. Note also that the bugs tagged [Move to EMF Facet] will be then treated within the context of the EMFT EMF Facet project, once the migration of the corresponding components from MoDisco will be fully performed.
Committed Items
No items.
Proposed Items
No items.
Deferred Items
No items.

Service, Support and Maintenance (Technologies and Use Cases layers)

The MDT MoDisco project has a proven track record of quality and reliability. After restructuring, service and support will take priority over new development work; commitments and schedules are subject to arbitrary change, slippage, or even deferral.
Committed Items
No items.
Proposed Items
No items.
Deferred Items
No items.
This release is part of Kepler