[etrice-dev] [announce] M2 of eTrice 0.4 released

[Henrik Rentz-Reichert <hrr@xxxxxxxxx>]

We have released the second milestone of eTrice 0.4.

The project plan of the upcoming release [1] lists three themes. Lots of work has been done in each area.
Here is a list of the most important items. For a complete list see bugzilla [2] and [3].

  * Dynamic Actors
      o it is now possible to create actor instances (including contained instances recursively) dynamically at runtime
      o a simple yet powerful persistence mechanism has been introduced for dynamic actors
      o 9 examples are available from the eTrice New Wizard illustrating the possibilities of optional dynamic actors
  * Consolidation of Existing Features: Model Editors, Generators and Runtimes (Java and C)
      o rename refactoring support also updates diagrams
      o some re-factorings that removed code duplications
      o updated documentation
      o many minor fixes
  * Minor New Features
      o physical and mapping model for Java
      o introduction of annotation types
      o instance configuration for replicated actors
      o instance to thread mapping for replicated actors
      o generate event dispatcher for manual behavior
      o New Wizard also generates a launch configuration for the generated application
      o New Wizard for new set of models (room, etphys, etmap) plus launch cinfigurations
      o more quick fixes
      o added Maven support for Java builds and wrapped the Java generator in a Maven plug-in
      o enumerations supported as data type
      o storing and re-storing of actor instances supported

Please install the Kepler based milestone from our update site [4] and try the new features.

-Henrik


[1] http://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.mdt.etrice/releases/0.4.0
[2] http://eclip.se/1e (redirects to a bugzilla search of M1 items)
[3] http://eclip.se/1f (redirects to a bugzilla search of M2 items)
[4] http://download.eclipse.org/etrice/updates/milestones/S-0.4.0-M2.201312201742