Papyrus IC/Architecture

This page is managed by the Papyrus Architecture Committee

Committee Members

• Chairman: Remi Schnekenburger (EclipseSource)
• Reibert Arbring (Ericsson)
• Keith Brown (OneFact)
• Per Jonsson (Saab)
• Johann Krautlager (Airbus Helicopters)
• Philip Langer (EclipseSource)
• Florian Noyrit (CEA)
• Simon Redding (Zeligsoft)

Minutes of Meetings (MoM)

• 2016-09-15 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2016-10-04 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2016-11-15 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2016-12-13 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-01-07 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-03-07 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-04-04 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-05-02 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-06-07 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-07-04 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-10-10 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2017-12-12 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-01-09 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-02-20 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-04-03 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-05-15 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-07-03 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-08-07 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-09-04 Architecture Committee Minutes
• 2018-12-04 Architecture Committee Minutes

Plans

2016H2 / 2017

As defined in the 2016-09-15 Architecture Committee Minutes, the plan for 2016H2 and 2017 is as follows:

• Combining Textual and Graphical Modeling (Lead: Simon)
  • Research project Zeligsoft and EclipseSource
  • Goal for Architecture Committee: Have an architecture for combining textual models with Papyrus diagrams/tables
• DSML Task force (Lead: Philip)
  • Results: Best practices for architecture, guidelines, documentation, etc. for DSMLs
  • Incremental customization
  • Documentation: Papyrus-IM as a starting point
• Product line support (Lead: Florian)
  • Splitting of repo, moving into TLP
  • Incremental customizations; provides input for DSML Task Force
  • Feature model for Papyrus as a starting point
• Dependency management when building products (Lead: Per)
  • Goal to minimize mandatory dependencies that bring in UI contributions (e.g. PDE UI, JDT UI, ...)
  • Investigation of dependencies brought into Papyrus-IM
• DSML "SDK" (Lead to be defined)
  • Cookbook in the short term (input from DSML Task Force)
  • Packaging
  • Tooling (long-term goal)

Report As 2017 04 06

Current Status

• Meeting every month (First Tuesday of the month)
  • Usually 6-7 people on the call

• Minutes of the meeting located on the wiki:
  • https://wiki.polarsys.org/Papyrus_IC/Architecture

• Various taskforces supporting mid and long term topics
  • Lead by architecture committee members
  • Report every month to the committee

• Allows also a technical synchronization on the Eclipse project
  • Releases / milestones status
  • Inter-project dependencies ( Compare for example)

• Answers to topics addressed to the Architecture committee
  • GMF runtime / tooling deprecation
  • Dependency management and APIs

Taskforces

• Dependency management in Papyrus (Per J.- Combitech/Saab)
  • How to reduce dependencies dragged by a product based on Papyrus (PDE, JDT, etc.)

• DSML support (Philip L. - EclipseSource)
  • How to easily extend / reduce / reuse a DSL
  • Product definition (From Papyrus for IM & other products)

• Textual / Graphical Modeling (Simon R. - Zeligsoft)
  • Hybrid approach
  • More experimental topic, based on research project
    • Text based serialization rather than XMI
    • Projectional approach

• Product line support - splitting of repositories (Florian N. - CEA)
  • Architecture of the Eclipse project itself (main / extras / experiments / etc.)
  • Better management for committers and technologies area

Oxygen Roadmap

• M6 - March 2017 (done)
  • Support for DSLs
    • Integration of the Architecture Framework
  • Issues on Guava versions - was still ongoing
    • Discussion together with Ed (OCL), Philip (Compare), Florian (Papyrus), Christian (Ind.)
  • Repositories splitted
  • GMF runtime / tooling management

• M7 - May 2017 (to be done)
  • Support for DSLs
    • Update of the Architecture Framework, based on feedback from “DSL” projects
  • Issues on Guava versions - push fixes
    • Contains solution together with Ed (OCL), Philip (Compare), Florian (Papyrus)
• Release on June - Papyrus 3.0

Future plans

• Proposal to synchronize at the EclipseCon France 2017 about Papyrus on the Web
  • 1 day Papyrus committers meeting?
• Setup plans for next official release “P…”