My Challenge for ESE 2010 : Result

Eclipse Summit Europe 2010 is nearly done and it's time to show the result of a challenge I started during this event : Setting sexy properties on the Ecore Sample Editor.

Here is a first screenshot of my works :


I plan to release it very quickly ...

Ready for ESE 2010

I was very busy theses last week, but now It's ok, I'm ready for ESE 2010. What a another new exciting experience ! Thanks a lot to the program committee to have validated my talk EEF, present, past and future.

I do my presentation Wednesday at 16h in Silchersaal. My slides are already on slideshare



I hope we can meet during the summit and discuss about sexy properties ;)

Eclipse Wordlcup : Bye Bye France, Hello source code !

Very sad day for french people, French team is probably out of the competition, thanks to Nicolas, Sidney and ... of course Raymond. Anyway, Here is the current rating in the Eclipse community :


Came from the end of ranking ldelaigue lead now the game. lredor is second, arichard third and Jens fourth. Finally fmaillet is always in top 5.

Sorry for Jonathan and Cédric who are now ranked 8th and 10th of the game. More information on : Forecast ranking.

I've just added the source code of the Eclipse Worldcup Forecast application on the Eclipse CVS. You can find it in the test directory of the eef project. Here is a PSF file.

Feel free to create you're own extension for the Eclipse WorldcupForecast Application ;)

Eclipse Worldcup : First results

3 days of world cup, we can do a first check of the game results :

lredor and Cedric lead the game with 18 points. After, there is SMonnier, Jonathan and fmaillet with 17 points. Well played !

It's not too late to start playing if you want to join us in the game. To play, just download the application :

windows windows64 linux linux64 macosx macosx64

And add a new player. You're 18 points late but it remains 224 points to win !!

To finish, let me remind you the process to validate your forecasts :

1. Fill out your forecast in the application
2. Save the modification
3. Then use the menu "World Cup Forecasts > Commit" to send your datas

If you not save before commit or you not commit, the default score (0-0) we be validate and use to compute your score !

Let's play !

Helios M6 - Acceleo/EEF back together

Finally Helios M6 is here !

You can install Acceleo and EEF from the Helios Update Site and benefit of the last features of this two projects.

For the EEF one, there is some bug fixes but mainly there is a new option in the EEFGen model that let you choose if you want use JMerge to manage user code or not. There is two way to customize generated code by EEF :

• Adding custom code in the dedicated area, protected area.
• Subclassing the generated code, putting user code in theses and providing them with appropriated provider

Now for the first way you can use JMerge instead of Acceleo protected area. If you check the option "Use JMerge to manage user code" in the EEFGen model, Acceleo will not generated protected area anymore but put a @generated tag at the beginning of the classes and at the beginning of each method (thanks Ed for the feature request).

Ready for eCon 2010 !

I'm ready for my first Eclipse Con 2010 ! It's very exciting to think that in some hours I'll be in Santa Clara to present EEF. My talk is a little shorter than in Eclipse Summit Europe so I focused on the essential.




My talk is monday at 14:42 and will deal with :

• What is EEF ?
• EEF in a Nutshell
• Some advanced uses of EEF
• EEF test case generation

There many topics in 12min but we are in Santa Clara during all Eclipse Con so feel free to ask us more information.

I have a second talk about SWTBot during Eclipse Con Thursday at 14:30. I'll present the work we done to create a bot (SWTBot) able to test GEF graphical modelers.


In this presentation I will talk about :

• SWTBot, a brief description
• GEF, what kind of application can be done with this framework?
• SWTBot the GEF-dedicated API

SWTBot really help us to create more robust GEF and GMF applications.

See you in Santa Clara

Take 5 min to improve the properties view of EMF Library sample

Recently, we received some bug about EEF for the library sample of EMF. After some fixes, EEF works for this metamodel. So I took 5 minutes (yes 5 minutes ! ;)) to make a demo about this sample.


The important thing behind this demo is the entire EEF process. You have all the steps needed to use EEF in the EMF generated treeviewer. Enjoy ;)