How to follow Obeo at EclipseOn 2011?

EclipseCon 2011 starts in less than one week from now.

This year, Obeo will be well represented with five of us going to Santa-Clara:
- Etienne Juliot, Vice-president and co-founder of Obeo, member of the Eclipse Foundation Board
- Cédric Brun, CTO of Obeo, member of the Architecture and Planning council, leading several Eclipse/Modeling projects
- Mariot Chauvin, committer on Acceleo, GMF and SWTBot
- Mikaël Barbero, EMFPath project leader
- and me ;-)

The program will be very intensive for us, with seven talks to give:

• What every Eclipse Developer should know about EMF
  
• EMFPath: how to use Guava (superset of Google Collections) to efficiently browse EMF models 
• 5M lines of code to migrate 
• True story of a successful business model based on Eclipse
• Mylyn meets Intent : Documentation made fun and useful
• Spy On Your Models
• Stop the Architecture Erosion of Eclipse And Open Source Projects

We are also in competion with five Eclipse Community Awards finalists:

• Laurent Goubet (Acceleo committer) for Top Committer
• Cedric Brun for Top Newcomer Evangelist 
• Modeling Amalgamation (lead by Cédric) for Most Open Project
• EEF (lead by Goulwen Le Fur) for Most Innovative New Feature or Eclipse Project
• ObeoDesigner for Best Modeling Tool

However, we don't forget the most important thing at EclipseCon: sharing ideas (and beers) with other Eclipse fans!

Using viewpoints to edit complex models

Based on GMF, Obeo Designer adds several viewpoint mechanisms which facilitate the edition of complex models.

One of the main difficulties with graphical representation of complex models is the number of nodes and edges visible on a same diagram.

Obeo Designer comes with the concept of layer which allows to select the types of graphical elements to display. Inspired from image manipulation tools, several layers can be defined on a diagram and optionally selected or unselected, depending on what the user wants to see from his model.

Based on the simple Family scenario (detailed in my previous post), this demo shows how to define layers for parental and brotherhood relationships.

Another way to reduce the models complexity, is to use tabular representations. With Obeo Designer it is possible to define custom tables representing elements of the model. The lines and the columns are fully customizable depending on the objects and which properties have to be displayed.

This demo, shows how to define a table representing members of a family. Columns contain the names of the parents and other columns contain the numbers of sons, daughters, brothers and sisters.