Eclipse Technologies and Community

Are your engineering tools built on top of strong and well-maintained technologies?

When you pick technologies to build tools empowering hundreds of your engineers, you aim at making the best choice. Open-Source is the best when you play the...

SiriusCon 2018 is SiriusCon Live!

⦏Breaking News Eclipse Sirius⦎ SiriusCon 2017!

SiriusCon 2017 has never been so close! The third edition of this conference will take place this Thursday, the 9th of November in the beautiful Paris! A who...

You only have a few more hours to submit to EclipseCon Europe!

I’m deeply honored of being part of the program committee again for EclipseCon Europe 2017.

EcoreTools: user experience revamped thanks to Sirius 5.0

Every year the Eclipse M7 milestone act as a very strong deadline for the projects which are part of the release train: it’s then time for polishing and refi...

⦏Breaking News Eclipse Sirius⦎ SiriusCon 2016 is coming!

The team is not only polishing Sirius 4.1.0 which is planned for the end of September, but also preparing for the ultimate event for the Sirius community aka...

Psst, psst, you might want to submit right now for EclipseCon Europe!

Eclipse Modeling Package Neon M6 is ready for testing

The teams have been working hard and pushed many changes. I’ve been tweeting those as they went but I figured that compiling a list into a blogpost could be ...

EclipseCon Europe 2015 is over but SiriusCon is coming!

EclipseCon Europe 2015 is over now. This conference is the one in which the “Eclipse Family” feeling is the most inescapable. The downside of this is that on...

What makes EclipseCon Europe a good conference ?

EclipseCon Europe 2014 is getting close and it will only get harder to book hotel rooms and flights. It's probably time to decide whether you come or not. Le...

Eclipse @Devoxx

I'm back from a full week at Devoxx in Antwerpen- Belgium. I was there to present the Sirius project and Eclipse Modeling at the Eclipse Foundation booth. (b...

Eclipse Modeling Package - The Road to Luna

Since the last public survey, my primary focus for the modeling package was : to include Ecore related technologies, or companion technologies with a low ...

Will you be Sirius at EclipseCon Europe ?

We've been in some sort of "Stealth mode" since the proposal for Eclipse Sirius got accepted. It did not makes sense to us to communicate on Sirius as long a...

Learning from the source

I don't know about you, but at Obeo we're preparing for EclipseCon North America. Eclipse Conferences are great, so many things are built on top of Eclipse o...

On being open and transparent

We always intend to run our Eclipse projects as real open-source projects. Being open, transparent and so on. The Eclipse Development process forces you to d...

Obeo Designer 6.1.0 - no 4.x platform... yet !

We've been quite buzzy in the last few months at Obeo : building and releasing a brand new product dedicated to EA, celebrating our seventh birhtday, buildin...

EclipseCon Europe - Time to hurry up !

Picture by Alan CleaverIt's summer, the Juno release is over and you all deserve to rest and  enjoy your vacations... but hey, you might have missed it ...

Eclipse DemoCamp Nantes - Live Broadcast

Hi,we are seting up a live broadcast of the Eclipse DemoCamp Nantes event (using Google+) , feel free to attend :https://plus.google.com/11034471007824574712...

Upcoming Events

With Juno's arriving to the end of the release cycle Eclipse Day's are popping up everywhere in the world. If you are not too far from France, you should con...

Preparing EclipseCon US 2012

We are pretty active in Eclipse: building the technology to generate code or text from models lowering the "system" versus "doc" barrier providing a...

Eclipse Day Paris 2011

Eclipse Day Paris took place a few weeks ago, every year it is scheduled the week after Eclipse Con Europe. I had the chance to attend the 2011 edition and ...

Follow the White Rabbit ...

at Eclipse Day Paris ! If you're always wondering why we are so excited about Eclipse Modeling Technologies, if you'd like to understand how technologies...

Obeo @ Eclipse Con Europe

Obeo invests a lot in Eclipse projects ( yes, we are a Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation), we're building, in the open the modeling platfo...

Synchronizing data : Dropbox-like based on open-source stack

I had to find a solution for my backup/cloud drive needs lately. Dropbox works just fine, but the pricing is going high to fast as you want more space. A 1To...

Collaborative Modeling : the New Deal

Want to know how we tackle collaborative modeling @ Obeo ? Want to see live demos of consistent optimistic or painless pessimistic strategies ? Want to see...

Measuring Performances

Performance is a feature, your users are needing it and so is your product. The code is changing, always, keeping track of the effect of those changes on th...

Comparing pom.xml files while waiting for indigo

I know you're all waiting for the Indigo release final bits ! These 0 and 1 are finding their way on the mirrors as I'm writing to make sure we'll get the ...

Eclipse Modeling Package : SDK or not ?

The indigo release will be the first year the Eclipse Modeling package is no more marked as "incubating". As I'm checking the status of every component I'm w...

Mylyn Intent @ EclipseCon 2011

In case you're not aware (yet ;) ) the Mylyn Intent proposal is going forward, if everything goes well we'll be able to get a shiny git repository on Eclipse...

2011 - The Thrill

One- two-three, one-two-three.. 2011 begins ... one-two-three.. Is that waltz ? Clearly 2011 is starting with another kind of tempo: a fast and dynamic one ...

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

Maybe twitter gives a false impression that you're keeping the users informed of what is going on. False because 140 chars can't be enough ! Many things ar...

Eclipse Helios - a whole year of goodness

Eclipse Helios is a release, but it's also a complete development cycle in a global and distributed team of commiters. Since I choose 3 features I especia...

3 Good Reasons to use the Helios Modeling Package

Now that the entire world noticed that I don't know even one thing about soccer and I'm even trying to cheat, I should get back in sharing what I underst...

Eclipse Modeling Survey results

The survey has been going on for more than one week now and the trends are only enforcing themselves. Let's summarize it:First, the audience represents many...

Eclipse Modeling Package Survey

I've been quiet in the planet lately, it doesn't mean I've been inactive, quite the contrary in fact, just like all the other commiters I've spent the last f...

Compare/Helios - Every Second Counts

I tend to break a lot of keyboards. Not because I release all the aggression that I hold deep within me on them, but because I drool testing the product Obeo...

I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy ..

I'm a long long way from home. And this poor lonesome cowboy. Has got a long long way to roam ... That's right, EclipseCon 2010 is over, each year it ge...

Modeling Project Runaway : ATL

"Modeling Project Runaway" was the talk you had to attend to get a vision of what is going on in Eclipse Modeling and more especially how lively this communi...

Eclipse Amalgamation 2.0

I'm waiting for a nightly M6 Modeling package to get downloaded on my laptop. As I've got a few hours to wait getting it I'll use this chance to give news a...

Its time already !

You're a computer science or engineer student, you love open source and would like to be involved in one of the greatest OSS project of all times ? You're l...

Eclipse Modeling Gems for Developers

Eclipse is the best modeling platform around there, even god knows that. What people tend to ignore is that fact that the Eclipse Modeling components are foc...

Eclipse Summit : here we come !

I'm polishing and putting the last touches of goodness in my slides for Eclipse Summit Europe. I'm looking forward to a great event as usual, with this warm ...

Exploring Eclipse Plugins: beyond Terra Incognita

In software engineering the "Terra Incognita" boundary is never far away from where you're standing. Most software are lacking an "overview" documentation or...

The 09/09/09 09:09 0.9.0 Release

Laurent did it not even on purpose, but the latest Acceleo I-build, which is the 0.9 branch, performed well and has this golden qualifier :So If you're super...

Let's take a step back ...

Lately I had to step back a bit and have a look on what's going on in the software industry. I think most of us did that lately as big players moved their c...

Award Winning Acceleo moving to Eclipse

Thank you from the Acceleo Team (unfortunately not complete here, have a look on the team pages for core and modules) !Thanks for all the people involved i...

Modeling your EclipseCon

EclipseCon has been going on for a few days now, and I'm quite happy to say this year's event is great, especially concerning the social interactions. I've b...

Eclipse Modeling Summer of Code 2009

Yes, summer is coming fast, and if you're a student interested in software development and engineering, Eclipse is a great place for a Summer of Code !New id...

ShuangXi effect : UI testing and documentation

In my never-ending quest of ideas or tools to avoid doing boring stuff (that sacred goal explains my interest in pragmatic modeling), I made quite a victory...

2008 was full of excitement,let's make an even better 2009 !

Times have been busy since Eclipse Summit, mixing the great stuffs I'm doing at work, Gaspard (Casper) incredibly fast growing, the Eclipse and Open Source ...

Back from ESE 2008 : WOW !

I'm now back to France after this great conference. Ed covered the "modeling events" quite well already but I can't prevent myself from sharing my pleasure ...

Amazing forest

Open-source projets are similar to tree in some ways. They are living through time and slowly but steadily growing, being much and much impressive and at som...

Modeling at ESE 2007

Eclipse summit is almost over now, a lot of things happened and the modeling project is, for sure, really lively. Many talks were targeted at peopl...

New licenses for QT : any progress on Eclipse ?

A few days ago the trolls opened their great framework a bit more adding new licence exceptions on their Free Software edition. This means Qt software can ...

Joining the community

First time blogging , many first times these days :)As the EMF Compare project lead I had to go to EclipseCon, the component has just been accepted so it was...