Eclipse Technologies and Community

Open Community Experience 2024: Obeo was there!

Highlights from OCX 2024 in Mainz for Eclipse/open‑source and MBSE practitioners, with takeaways on Sirius Web, SysON, and the Cyber Resilience Act's impact.

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

Why well‑maintained OSS foundations matter for engineering tools—Sirius’ 12 releases in 2022 show reliability for teams betting long‑term, today.

SiriusCon 2018 is SiriusCon Live!

Event announcement: SiriusCon 2018 goes online as SiriusCon Live; for modelers and tool makers using Eclipse Sirius; highlights community momentum, deep tech...

⦏Breaking News Eclipse Sirius⦎ SiriusCon 2017!

SiriusCon 2017 arrives in Paris this week with deep Sirius content, companion tech, and user stories: for tool builders and adopters; why it matters—exclusiv...

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

Last-hours call to submit talks to EclipseCon Europe 2017: for community speakers and project leads; why it matters—help shape the program with focused, to-t...

EcoreTools: user experience revamped thanks to Sirius 5.0

A hands-on look at EcoreTools’ Oxygen revamp powered by Sirius properties: for EMF/Sirius tool builders and modelers; why it matters—lighter code, better UX,...

⦏Breaking News Eclipse Sirius⦎ SiriusCon 2016 is coming!

SiriusCon 2016 announced: a one‑day, content‑packed, free event in Paris; for Sirius users and tool makers; why it matters—best practices, roadmap, clinic, a...

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

One week left to submit for EclipseCon Europe 2016: for speakers and project leads; why it matters—community voting favors early entries, keep abstracts shar...

Eclipse Modeling Package Neon M6 is ready for testing

Eclipse Modeling Package Neon M6 highlights and changes: for Eclipse modelers and tool builders; why it matters—new features, speedups, packaging tweaks—plea...

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:

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 make sense to us to communicate on Sirius as long as...

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 !

EclipseCon Europe - Time to hurry up !

Eclipse DemoCamp Nantes - Live Broadcast

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Upcoming Events

With Juno’s arriving to the end of the release cycle, Eclipse Day’s are popping up everywhere in the world.

Preparing EclipseCon US 2012

We are pretty active in Eclipse:

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 i...

Follow the White Rabbit ...

at Eclipse Day Paris!

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 platform we need...

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 too fast as you want more space.

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 mor...

Measuring Performances

Performance is a feature — your users need it and so does your product. The code is changing, always; keeping track of the effect of those changes on perform...

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 smo...

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 Eclips...

2011 - The Thrill

One- two-three, one-two-three.. 2011 begins … one-two-three..

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

Autumn updates at Obeo: Helios SR shipped, new hires, and a handy Acceleo 3 trick—calling Java services from templates with quick fixes.

Eclipse Helios - a whole year of goodness

Helios as a year‑long journey: community milestones, conferences, and the bits that made Eclipse Modeling better for real users.

3 Good Reasons to use the Helios Modeling Package

Three reasons the Helios Modeling Package became my daily driver—hidden EMF goodies, EcoreTools diagrams, and full SDK access—with add‑ons to try.

Eclipse Modeling Survey results

What the Eclipse Modeling survey revealed—documentation and examples top the list, plus size trade‑offs and ideas to crowdsource improvements.

Eclipse Modeling Package Survey

Quick 6‑question survey to shape the Eclipse Modeling Package for Indigo—what you use, what’s missing, and where to invest next.

Compare/Helios - Every Second Counts

EMF Compare performance sprint for Helios—much faster matching and lower memory on large models, with data and what’s next.

I'm a poor, lonesome cowboy ..

Post‑EclipseCon 2010 notes: highlights across EMF Compare, e4, CDO, Mylyn, ATL, and the Modeling package—community energy in one place.

Modeling Project Runaway : ATL

ATL gets a major tooling refresh—refining mode, improved editors, and a Java API—highlighted in the ‘Modeling Project Runaway’ session.

Eclipse Amalgamation 2.0

How Amalgamation reshaped the Eclipse Modeling Package into a lean Modeling SDK with P2 discovery—what changed and why it helps adopters.

Its time already !

Call for Google Summer of Code 2010 contributors on Eclipse—ideas from EMF Shell to CuteGEF, and how students and committers can jump in now.

Eclipse Summit : here we come !

Heading to Eclipse Summit Europe—slides and session on Acceleo’s journey—for community members planning their ESE agenda this week.

Exploring Eclipse Plugins: beyond Terra Incognita

A one‑day cartography of Eclipse plugins with PDE APIs—for Eclipse engineers needing step‑by‑step exploration of dependencies and extensions now.

The 09/09/09 09:09 0.9.0 Release

A numerically auspicious Acceleo 0.9 I‑build and ESE talk lineup—for Acceleo users tracking milestones and planning to meet in Ludwigsburg.

Let's take a step back ...

Taking stock of web‑app vs. desktop trends and Eclipse’s path to easy install, updates, and collaboration—for platform builders deciding where to invest now.

Award Winning Acceleo moving to Eclipse

Award‑winning Acceleo joins Eclipse—for template‑based code generation users who care about open governance, roadmaps, and community momentum right now.

Eclipse Modeling Summer of Code 2009

Google Summer of Code ideas across EMF/Acceleo/Modeling—for students and mentors eager to build practical tooling and 3D diff visualizations this season.

ShuangXi effect : UI testing and documentation

Using SWTBot to generate tutorial screenshots and test Eclipse UIs—for plugin developers and doc writers who need maintainable, up‑to‑date guides now.

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

A look back at 2008’s Eclipse/modeling highlights and what’s next for 2009—for Eclipse users and open‑source practitioners seeking context and resources righ...

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 a...

Amazing forest

Open-source projects are similar to trees in some ways. They live through time and slowly but steadily grow, becoming much more impressive and at some point ...

Modeling at ESE 2007

Eclipse Summit is almost over now; a lot of things happened and the Modeling project is, for sure, really lively.

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 b...

Joining the community

First time blogging, many first times these days :)