Eclipse Acceleo 3.0.0

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Release Date:

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Deliverables:

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

Acceleo SDK (includes runtime and tooling components, with sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
Acceleo runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
Acceleo examples (downloadable and update site)
Acceleo tests (downloadable and update site)

Compatibility:

The acceleo 3.0 version will be compatible with the 0.8 version.

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 Acceleo 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:

The acceleo project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" Java. Acceleo will be available on Eclipse Ganymede, Galileo, and Helios. EMF is used by the Acceleo execution engine for accessing the models. The MDT-OCL component is reused to edit, parse, and interpret OCL as a sub-language of Acceleo. acceleo will target the same Java version as EMF, which currently requires Java 5. Eclipse Platform SDK 3.6 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. Acceleo will be tested and validated against a subset of those listed for the platform.

Themes:

Advanced feature compliance

<ul><li>Standalone Component.</li><li>Advanced feature compliance level of the MOF Model-To-Text language.</li><li>Keep the user code you typed manually : User tags and JMerge support.</li><li>Complete Acceleo Runtime library.</li><li>Java developer facilities : Java extensions and Properties files.</li><li>Files encoding.</li><li>MTL Syntax Documentation.</li></ul>

Eclipse IDE components

<ul><li>2 modes for the Eclipse Builder : The fully OMG standard mode and the EMF addict mode.</li><li>Advanced code completion and quick fixes to create a template from an example.</li><li>Overrides View : Show the workspace and the plugin generators to make it possible to override easily the behavior of the code generation.</li><li>Traceability information : The Result view to show the synchronization between the code and the model.</li><li>Export a generator as a plugin and build a generator on the Eclipse build server.</li><li>Debug and Profile a code generation.</li><li>Real time syntax error detection.</li><li>IDE Documentation.</li></ul>

Integration with other tools

<ul><li>Workflow facilities for acceleo.</li><li>Compatibility with other Eclipse modeling projects like QVTo, ATL, JET, and Xpand.</li><li>A wizard to migrate an Acceleo template from the 2.x version to the 3.0 version.</li></ul>

Examples

Examples for end-users : Python, Java

This release is part of Helios.

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