oAW NewsopenArchitectureWare 4.3 beta is basically a bugfix release for oAW 4.2. However, it contains a set of significant new features for Xtext.
The openArchitectureWare team is proud to present the long awaited 4.2 release of the well-known MDSD toolkit. The new version comes with several major improvements (see below) and is now also fully compatible with the Eclipse 3.3 Europa release and the corresponding EMF 2.3, UML 2.1 and GMF 2.0! Major new features include a Debugger for Xpand and Xtend fully integrated Eclipse's debugging facility. You will love this when writing complex templates or transformations. In addition, openArchitectureWare 4.2 support Product Line Engineering (PLE) on generator level by integrating with popular variant management tools and the new components XWeave and XVar. The 4.2 release features a revamped Xtext with many more options for customizing the generated textual editors. The team has also worked hard on fixing many annoying quirks, bugs and performance issues. The documentation has been improved significantly. There are about 3hrs of videos available demonstrating the use of simple to complex features of the openArchitectureWare platform. The documentation source was changed so we can now provide it in several forms: Eclipse's online help, PDF or plain HTML. Download openArchitectureWare 4.2 now and enjoy it. There is no better way to do professional model-driven software development. The openArchitectureWare Team.
During the JAX conference, the JAX Innovation Award jury just announced the winner of the 2007 edition of the JAX Innovation Award. The winner was the Groovy scripting language. Second was the SonarJ architecture analysis tool. And - surprisingly - openArchitectureWare has won the third price. Very cool :-) We also almost won the audience award... but the Matisse GUI Builder surpassed us scantily.
openArchitectureWare 4.1.2 has been released today. This version contains no major new features; it is a maintenance release with a number of bug fixes and small improvements as can be seen from the release notes on the download page. Incremental improvements include an integration with Rational Software Architect as well as the new Standard Library.
openArchitectureWare has now released the first beta of the IBM Rational RSA/RSM Adapter. This allows you to work directly with RSX's files (model files and profiles) in the oAW IDE as well as at runtime.
openArchitectureWare 4.1.1 has been released today. This version contains no major new features; it is a maintenance release with a number of bug fixes and small improvements as can be seen from the release notes on the download page.
The uml2ecore utility, which generates ecore meta models from UML2 models now has additional features: it generates a constraint file for minimum multiplicities for references as well as a number of attributes, constraints and extensions to handle names, namespaces and qualified names
We have updated the development roadmap to reflect the upcoming 4.1.1 and 4.2 versions of openArchitectureWare.
The openArchitectureWare team recognizes the need to improve the marketing and the public perception of openArchitectureWare. To achieve this, we are calling on the growing community of satisfied users of oAW. We would like you to write quotes and success stories. You can also win a book in doing so. Please see the openArchitectureWare home page (the link given in this post) for details.
Markus, Arno, Bernd an me (Sven) have written an article about MDSD and oAW which has been published on The ServerSide. It is called The Pragmatic Code Generator Programmer and is about a reimplementation of an exerceise from the best selling book "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. We've used openArchitectureWare 4.1 and Xtext for the reimplementation, of course.
Building meta models with EMF's internal tools is tedious. Using the tree view based editors doesn't scale. Once you're at more than, say, 30 metaclasses, things become hard to work with. The same is true for GMF's Ecore editor. Since you cannot easily factor a large meta model into several diagrams, the diagram get cluttered and layouting becomes almost impossible. One way to solve this problem is to use UML tools to draw the meta model and then transform the UML model into an Ecore instance. The oAW uml2ecore utiliy transforms a suitably structured Eclipse UML2 model (which can be created using various tools) into an ecore file.
A new tutorial is available at the download page. It shows (1) how to do model-to-model transformations (2) how to test m2m transformations (3) how to "transform away" from UML2 (4) how to use global variables and (5) how to use java extensions.
We've just released version 4.1 of our leading edge generator framework openArchitectureWare. It contains a number of powerful new features. Some of the most important are: Xtend's create extensions, the Xtext Framework for building textual DSL editors, and the integration with Eclipse GMF as outlined in our Eclipse.org article From Frontend To Code. Additionally we have improved the user experience by adding example project wizards, outline views and completely simplified the necessary steps to get started. Of course, we have also improved a lot of details and fixed a number of bugs. Got, get it!
With a short delay the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the 4.1 stream is available. Note, that we don't have reworked the documentation yet! (But we will within the next days) The jars are available from the updatesite at http://www.openarchitectureware.org/updatesite/milestone/site.xml You can also download a zip file containing the jars from http://eclipse.org/gmt/oaw/download. We now have a maven2 repository (probably with small issues - As we don't use maven2 for our build, we've written a small batch converting the updatesite jars into a corresponding m2 repository) You can find it here http://www.openarchitectureware.org/m2. Note, that we will add new SNAPSHOTS on a regular basis. We will deploy the 4.1 final release to ibiblio.org, too.
RC1 of openArchitectureWare 4.1 is now available for download.
Software Engineering Radio has today published Episode 16 of its podcast, illustrating MDSD with openArchitectureWare. Earlier episodes already introduced the fundamentals of MDSD.
A new tutorial, including source code, has been posted. This shows a complete MDSD tool chain from the editor, through model validation and transformation, down to code generation. The tutorial nicely integrates GMF and openArchitectureWare.
The development team has published the development roadmap for oAW 4.1. We plan the final release to be on July 15, shortly after Eclipse 3.2 and GMF 1.0.
openArchitectureWare version 4 has been released. It provides really good support for Eclipse UML2 as well as a number of bug fixes and small enhancements. If you haven't downloaded and tried oAW yet, now is the time!
RC3 of oAW 4 has been uploaded. It contains a number of bugfixes as well as a limited set of new features.
We have uploaded a number of new tutorials, among them the use of Xpand's template AOP feature and the use of Topcased's Ecore editor.
RC2 of oAW 4 has been uploaded. It contains a number of bugfixes as well as a limited set of new features.
The openArchitectureWare team is proud to announce the availability of openArchitectureWare 4 RC1. It comes with many new features and makes development of MDSD tools a whole lot easier. The rewritten and extended documentation should also make the tool much easier to learn.
In anticipation of the upcoming release of version 4 of openArchitectureWare on Jan 31, 2006, the oAW Website has been updated to contain all the important information. Preliminary Documentation has also been uploaded.
Creation of oAW subproject under GMT.
