Live demo of a graphical DSL

Last week I was in Toulouse, for the second step of Obeo Designer roadshow.

The evening, just after the roadshow, I have been invited by Toulouse JUG for a 15' talk.

I presented a live demo of Obeo Designer: from zero, I created a new graphical designer (definition of an Ecore model, generation of the EMF source code, creation of a sample model and definition of a diagram).

The presentation (in french) has been recorded. It is available on Parleys.com.

At the end, while I was presenting an existing designer (Graal Designer, a designer created for the french Ministry of Defence) Etienne, who was attending the presentation with his own machine, connected to my machine and hacked my diagram in live!

An interesting use-case of collaborative modeling ;-)

There were also four other presentations: GTB (by Baptiste Mathus), Jenkins (by Michaël Pailloncy), JavaFX2 (by Sebastien Bordes) and Scala (by Didier Plaindoux). These presentations are also on Parleys.com.

Thank you to Nicolas Zozol and Baptiste Mathus for the invitation to this event and its organization.

On the road again!

Once again, Obeo will hit the road with its hot new technologies and products in the bag.
We will meet with our partners, customers and technical community through three main events.

Obeo Designer Roadshow 2012

After the success of 2011's edition, we will organize a new roadshow which will pass through 4 cities in France:

Nantes (18/10) Toulouse (15/11) Paris (20/11) Grenoble (6/12)

Each day is free and composed of two parts:

The morning, we will present how custom graphical designers can help in managing complexity and how to create this kind of tools with Obeo Designer. Then, we will let our partners and customers to present case-studies where they have used Obeo Designer. For the first date, in Nantes, case-studies will be presented by MMA and Thales Services.

The afternoon, is dedicated to a "hands-on" session. We encourage each participant to come with its own idea of a graphical designer. And, with the help of Obeo experts, we promise that everyone leave with a first version of a running designer!

Last year, participants left with designers for robots, SOA systems, IT infrastructure, authorization management, etc...

Complete information here

Enterprise Architecture Morning

The 16th of October, we will be in Paris to discuss about Enterprise Architecture.

The morning is free and will be composed of 4 main parts:

• Obeo's approach to Enterprise Architecture
• Case-Study by Choregie, in the Insurance domain
• TEAP, a collaborative research project with Capgemini and DCNS.
• SmartEA, the solution proposed by Obeo

Complete information here

At the end, we will keep time to allow participants to install SmartEA on their PC and to play with a sample model.

Obeo SmartEA allows Enterprise Architects to define their existing and target architectures (As-Is and To-Be), to evaluate gap analysis and define transformation scenarios. It provides:

• a graphical environment based on Eclipse to edit TOGAF models
• a viewpoint technology based on Obeo Designer to create new kinds of representations
• a database repository to store the models and to allow collaborative work (technology based on Eclipse CDO)
• connectors to federate existing information with the repository
• architectural tools to study evolution plans and to analyze their impacts
• a web client to navigate and to search into the models

EclipseCon Europe 2012

Last but not the least, like each year, Obeo will be present at Ludwigsburg (Germany) for the annual Eclipse conference in Europe.

Obeo has been selected for 8 talks:

• Chocolate Based Development by Etienne Juliot
• 15 EMF projects in 25 minutes by Cedric Brun
• Beyond Mylyn, leverage the data of your IDE by Stephane Begaudeau
• Build your own System Engineering workbench by Melanie Bats, Cedric Brun
• Buildroot Eclipse Bundle : A powerful IDE for Embedded Linux developers by Melanie Bats
• EMFCompare 2.0: Scaling to Millions by Mikael Barbero, Cedric Brun
• It's 2012 and your documentation sucks by Alex Lagarde, Cedric Brun, Stephane Begaudeau
• Polarsys: the open industrial revolution of Embedded Systems development by Gael Blondelle

Step in Toulouse

This week, I'll be in Toulouse, the aerospace city.

Wednesday (June 22), we will start the Obeo Designer Roadshow, a serie of six steps in six different cities (Toulouse, Brest, Nantes, Paris, Niort and Lille).

Each step of this roadshow will be organized in two parts: the morning will be dedicated to a presentation of the version 5.0 of Obeo Designer, presentations of case-studies by users and a panel to discuss about graphical DSLs.

The afternoon will be more technical with Hands-On sessions: we have asked to each person to come with a case, and we will help them to implement their own graphical designer during the afternoon.

In Toulouse, the case-studies will be presented by Pascal Roques of PRFC and Tristan Faure of Atos Origin.

Thursday (June 23), I will attend Eclipse Party (the Indigo Demo Camp) and give a talk about JavaEE code generation with EEF and Acceleo.

This Demo Camp, will be very intensive with two tracks and a lot of interesting talks (Topcased, Koneki, Closure, Birt, RCP, eGit, SWTBot, e4, etc).

There will also be a specific session about feedback from EclipseCon 2011 (XText, Orion, CDT, Tycho).

Finally, it will end with a panel about Eclipse and its ecosystem, animated by Gaël Blondelle of Obeo.