Constraint Graph: Graphical Modeling of Physical Equation Systems

10h05 - 10h35

ETAS is creating a modeling tool for physical control systems based on Sirius. The graphical part is centered around the modeling of physical equations, i.e., functions and variables. Based on these physical equations the tool allows to check the validity and to create computation sequences to calculate the equations based on a set of known variables.

In my talk I will present the usage of Sirius in this area, the advantages that convinced us to use Sirius but also the challenges in the adoption. One part of the challenges are the interaction with a XText based model and the cooperation with a textual representation. This includes the discrepancies between a resource based and a model based approach.

Safr@n: Combining Several DSLs to Analyze, Design and Generate Normalized Applications (in French)

10h05 - 10h35

In this talk, we will introduce the SAFR@N workbench used by the French Ministry of Defense to produce normalized applications. In particular, we will focus on the Studio based on Sirius. In the heart of SAFR@N, this Studio provides several domain specific languages (DSL) dedicated to the different activities involved in the creation of IT systems, from requirement analysis to code generation, including the design of services (SOA), GUI screen flows, database, etc.

EIP Designer: Filling the Gap Between Enterprise Architecture and Software Development

10h40 - 11h10

In this talk, I will introduce an open source designer for Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) based on Eclipse Sirius. The goal of this designer is to provide fluidity and continuity whilst filling the gap existing between Enterprise Architecture practices and concrete software development. During this session, I will come back on project genesis and designer realization process. I will show you - through a real world use-case - how the combination of Sirius / EMF / Acceleo and Eclipse plugin technologies may be used to provide efficient, taylored thus extensible working environments."

Experimenting the Open Source MBSE Solution Capella: the Industrials' Viewpoint

11h40 - 12h10

Capella is a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution using Sirius for its diagrams rendering.

It has been initially developed in house by Thales and has been open sourced (in Polarsys) within the context of the CLARITY project. This was actually the very first step of CLARITY, which aims at developing and structuring an international ecosystem around Capella. The CLARITY project now investigates customization capabilities for Capella and aims at complementing the ecosystem with a community that brings together major actors of the entire engineering value chain (industrials, integrators, technology providers and consultants, academia) for open innovation in MBSE within Capella.

In this context, Areva and Airbus Defence & Space already made lots of experimentations and are helping the ecosystem to mature up by providing feedbacks to the community. In this talk, you will get an overview of what those 2 Industrial companies have realized so far.

Sirius Viewpoints and Software Modernization

11h40 - 12h10

When confronted to the task of modernizing a legacy application, we are often faced with the fact that the only available and trustworthy documentation of the software lies in its code base, that is usually very large and contains information not relevant to the migration. It is important to be able to extract its essence, such as business rules, while leaving out the technical details not pertinent to the new architecture. In this talk, we will discuss how a model-based approach can help modernization projects with mining the necessary information from the code, and how Sirius and its viewpoints support the migration process by providing cunning notations and powerful tooling to describe different aspects of a system at the right level of abstraction and in a way understandable to the many stakeholders of such project.

eWORMS, the eclipse WORkflow Management System for Flight Physicists at Airbus

12h15 - 12h45

Reading this title, two questions should come to your mind: again a new workflow tool? What can bring eclipse and Sirius which does not already exist?

The first question has obsessed us during the whole incubation phase of eWORMS, especially because as Flight Physicists we are generally users of workflows to support our trades, rather than developers. And indeed there are plenty of tools to do workflows on the market, promising easy integration, automation, customization, evolution… whatevertion! But in the end, nothing’s magic: you still have to develop quite a lot wrapping your tools, coupling data from one to the other, managing the failures… all that in a non-IDE tool. And when you need a domain specific workflow feature, the tool is simply not opened to extensions.

You now have an idea of the answers to the second question: what can bring eclipse and Sirius? Extensibility, powerfull IDE… we’ll show in particular how Sirius over EMF allow us to create with minimum development efforts – and thus reasonnable timescale – an extensible workflow modelling product, with graphical capabilities not only at the level of commercial products, but also able to support smartly our domain specific needs regarding workflow management.

Sirius Roadmap

14h00 - 14h50

With almost 500 bugzillas between Luna and Mars.1 version, the Sirius team has been very active in bringing more goodness to the technology, most notably :

• improving and tweaking many aspects of the diagram user experience inherited by GMF enabling new capabilities in the Diagram editors : compartments, streamlined behavior when using images in your modeler
• enhancing the definition tooling through inferred types, search and navigation and validation constraints
• improving the scalability and performances of the runtime to support models having 1 million of elements with no fuss

This session is going to walk you through demos and technical explanations of what is going on behind the scene.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of what this new version brings, but also how everything works together, what are the trade-offs to consider and what can be expected from the future versions.

Sirius Tutorial

14h55 - 17h35

This tutorial will guide you creating a first modeling tool using a wide range of Sirius features.

Both beginners and experienced Sirius users can participate to this tutorial. From a starting sample provided at the beginning of the session, you will discover how to easily implement the features that makes the difference with a basic modeling tool: advanced edition tools, conditional graphical rendering, layers, validation rules and quick fixes, tables, etc.

Come with your laptop and leave the tutorial with a dsl-based tool providing advanced modeling features.

All the Little Things That Make Your Graphical Tool Shine (or not)

17h05 - 17h35

Want to be proud of the modeling tool you have created with Sirius? Need to boost its adoption? What better way to make your users happy with their tool and also proud of their diagrams?

In this talk you will learn how to make good use of many Sirius features that will help you enhancing the graphical rendering of the diagrams and improve the user experience: color palette, images, edition and navigation tools, etc.

Collaborative Modeling with Sirius: from Model Fragments to Shared-Repository

15h30 - 16h00

Have you already tried to work on the same model with your team members? Then, you probably faces the problem of accessing a coveted resource! And you rapidly came to the conclusion that one single file for a model is not scalable on active teams.

In this talk we will explain the two main solutions that you can adopt to collaborate on a model with Sirius: splitting your model into several resources or store your model into a shared repository.

Tip & Tricks: How to Make Robust and Scalable Modeling Workbenches

14h55 - 15h25

You have already built a modeling workbench thanks to Sirius and you are going to deploy it on a large scale?

So you may need a deeper understanding on how Sirius works and learn about how to make your tool more robust and more scalable.

During this talk, you will discover how Sirius computes the elements to display in your modeler and how your Sirius configuration can impact the performance of your tool.

Breathe Life into your Designer!

12h15 - 12h45

You have your shiny new DSL up and running thanks to the Eclipse Modeling Technologies and you built a powerful tooling with graphical modelers, textual syntaxes or dedicated editors to support it. But how can you see what is going on when a model is executed ? Don't you need to simulate your design in some way ? Wouldn't you want to see your editors being animated directly within your modeling environment based on execution traces or simulator results?

The GEMOC Research Project designed a methodology to bring animation and execution analysis to DSLs. The companion technologies required to put this in action are small dedicated components (all open-source) at a "proof of concept" maturity level extending proven components : Sirius, Eclipse Debug, Xtend making such features within the reach of Eclipse based tooling. The general intent regarding those OSS technologies is to leverage them within different contexts and contribute them to Eclipse once proven strong enough. The method covers a large spectrum of use cases from DSLs with a straightforward execution semantic to a combination of different DSLs with concurrent execution semantic. Any tool provider can leverage both the technologies and the method to provide an executable DSL and animated graphical modelers to its users enabling simulation and debugging at an early phase of the design.

This talk presents the approach, the technologies and demonstrate it through an example: providing Eclipse Debug integration and diagram animation capabilities for Arduino Designer (EPL) : setting breakpoints, stepping forward or backward in the execution, inspecting the variables states... We will walk you through the steps required to develop such features, the choices to make and the trade-offs involved. Expects live demos with simulated blinking leds and a virtual cat robot !