The Eclipse Sirius project was first published in 2013 after years of development. Since then it has been used to create a deploy graphical modelers by a vibrant international community, the Sirius Gallery page publicly lists more than 50 different workbenches in many domains, from Healthcare to CyberSecurity, IoT, Simulation, Business Analysis or Cloud Computing.
Diagram layout is an important topic in graphical modelers and Sirius Desktop has many features helping in getting a nice-looking diagram : aligning shapes on other shape or on a grid, avoid overlap in the routing of an edge, distributing shapes horizontally or vertically and pin/unpinning elements so that these user decisions are kept even when an auto-layout is triggered.
Sirius is the easiest framework when it comes to creating graphical studios in the EMF ecosystem. With Sirius Web, we present the next generation. Rewritten from the ground up and with first-class support for Web applications, Sirius Web, as the successor of Sirius Desktop, also brings new features and support for existing studios specifications.
What’s in there? How does it differ from the classic Sirius Desktop?
The answers to these questions and others will be given in this talk, together with a dive into example applications.
Going from Java code to DSL & EMF generation enables us to scale our creation of domain specific tooling in ways that aren't possible with a code only approach—which is a good thing! But as we provide desktop applications, one must examine and address the deployment and maintenance questions. The truth is that desktop applications are not very good at solving these issues.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of creating DSL graphical editors and of having too many things to do: start Eclipse, describe her domain with Ecore, generate the EMF code, launch another Eclipse runtime, specify her graphical mappings with Sirius Desktop, test with another Eclipse runtime, package everything to an update site, send it to Bob so that he can install it, help Bob who can’t find how to install the modeler, reiterate from the beginning to update the tool according to Bob feedbacks and needs…
Deployment of a product is not always the ideal three clics job: Download > Unzip > Launch:
“The easiest way to get your own Modelling tool” – claims Sirius.
But does Sirius really have what it takes to build an industrial scale project visualization and cover all the corner use cases. Sirius comes with its own challenges. We at Bosch pushed Sirius to its limits and developed a tool to visualize, optimize and analyse huge automotive models.
Attend this talk to discover what are the industrial solutions available today to create a web-ready modeling tool.
The tooling trends are to go to the web. The Eclipse community members are making lots of efforts to transition the existing modeling frameworks (EMF, Sirius, GLSP…) to be cloud ready. But this is still the beginning of the story preparing the foundation for the future of web-based tooling.
Sirius is an Eclipse project that allows you to easily represent and edit information in a visual way.
Based on EMF, a workbench designed with Sirius provides a set of graphical model editors (diagrams, tables, trees, properties view) integrated in the Eclipse environment. The creation of this workbench is greatly simplified by the ability to test the editors in real time.
Eclipse Sirius is a field-proven technology for creating graphical modeling workbenches. The technology has been used in production for more than 10 years and led to the creation of an impressive number of graphical modelers. The Sirius website gallery demonstrates 45 of those workbenches recorded over the years.
