1. @melaniebats
Sirius Roadmap
Timeline of a decade
0.1 4.5 4.7 0.9 2.0 5.1 6.0
Mélanie Bats, CTO@Obeo

2. @melaniebats
Once upon a time...

3. @melaniebats
Mesozoic
No trace of Sirius

4. @melaniebats
Cro-Magnons
First Sirius diagrams

5. @melaniebats
2002-2006 -Rise of the giants
Birth of the Eclipse Modeling
Ecosystem :
GEF/EMF/GMF

6. @melaniebats
11/2005 - Meanwhile in Nantes
Obeo is Alive!

7. @melaniebats
2006 - Acceleo

8. @melaniebats
08/2007 - GMF Air
The Sirius awakens

9. @melaniebats
GMF Air
AIR = Advance Interactive Representation
“.air” (VSMs) and “.aird” (d = data)
Pure visualisation, no edition

10. @melaniebats
The first trace
r13743 | cbrun | 2007-08-21 14:32:35 +0200 (mar. 21 août 2007) | 4 lignes
Chemins modifiés :
A /test/cbrun
A /test/cbrun/prototype
A /test/cbrun/prototype/fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint
A /test/cbrun/prototype/fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.diagram
A /test/cbrun/prototype/fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.edit
A /test/cbrun/prototype/fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.editor
Partager projet 'fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint' dans 'https://svn.obeo.fr/test'
Partager projet 'fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.editor' dans 'https://svn.obeo.fr/test'
Partager projet 'fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.edit' dans 'https://svn.obeo.fr/test'
Partager projet 'fr.obeo.dsl.viewpoint.diagram' dans 'https://svn.obeo.fr/test

11. @melaniebats
The Sirius metamodel after 1 day

12. @melaniebats
First steps...

13. @melaniebats
03/2008 - Obeo Designer
The new branding

14. @melaniebats
03/2009 - Obeo Designer 4.5
Validate, fix, control

15. @melaniebats
Obeo Designer 4.5
● New VSMs editor
● Validation rules &
quick-fixes
● Control/Uncontrol aird files

16. @melaniebats
05/2010 - Obeo Designer 4.6
Free edition

17. @melaniebats
Obeo Designer 4.6
Sequence diagrams
Free version for academics

18. @melaniebats
11/2010 - Obeo Designer 4.7
The rainbow version

19. @melaniebats
Obeo Designer 4.7

20. @melaniebats
03/2011 - Obeo Designer 5.0

21. @melaniebats
04/2011 - UML Designer

22. @melaniebats
1st version of UML Designer

23. @melaniebats
03/2012 - Obeo Designer 6.0

24. @melaniebats
Obeo Designer Team

25. @melaniebats
Git saved my life!

26. @melaniebats
03/2013 - Best Modeling Product
http://cedric.brun.io/introducing-eclipse-sirius/

27. @melaniebats
03/2013 - Let it go!
http://cedric.brun.io/introducing-eclipse-sirius/

28. @melaniebats
12/2013 - Sirius 0.9

29. @melaniebats
06/2014 - Sirius 1.0

30. @melaniebats
Obeo Designer is there for you
Obeo Designer D Community Edition
All you need to work with Sirius

31. @melaniebats
Ecore tools 2.0

32. @melaniebats
Capella

33. @melaniebats
10/2014 - Sirius 2.0

34. @melaniebats
06/2015 - Sirius 3.0

35. @melaniebats
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Sirius3.0

36. @melaniebats
AQL
Sirius3.0

37. @melaniebats
SiriusCon 2015

38. @melaniebats
06/2016 - Sirius 4.0

39. @melaniebats
Properties view
Sirius4.0

40. @melaniebats
10/2016 - Sirius 4.1

41. @melaniebats
Team for Capella

42. @melaniebats
06/2017 - Sirius 5.0

43. @melaniebats
Decorator mechanism
● 3 types of decoration: mapping
based, semantic based or generic
Sirius5.0

44. @melaniebats
Decorator mechanism
● 3 types of decoration: mapping
based, semantic based or generic
● Position indicates where the
decorator should be placed
Sirius5.0

45. @melaniebats
Decorator mechanism
● 3 types of decoration: mapping
based, semantic based or generic
● Position indicates where the
decorator should be placed
● Tooltip of a list decoration
Sirius5.0

46. @melaniebats
Dialogs
Sirius5.0

47. @melaniebats
Wizards
Sirius5.0

48. @melaniebats
Auto creation of properties view definition
Sirius5.0

49. @melaniebats
Properties views extension mechanism
● Reuse the same properties view
definition:
○ In properties view tabs, pages and
groups
○ In dialogs and wizards
● Improve your designer’s
maintainability
Sirius5.0

50. @melaniebats
Properties views extension mechanism
Sirius5.0

51. @melaniebats
Properties views override mechanism
Sirius5.0
To customize existing odesign
which cannot be modified

52. @melaniebats
Default dashboard
Sirius5.0

53. @melaniebats
11/2017 - Sirius 5.1

54. @melaniebats
Extensible Dashboard
● Mechanism to contribute other pages
○ Extension point: org.eclipse.sirius.ui.editor.sessionEditoPageProvider
○ before, after, or replace the default page/any other page
● Each page knows
○ when it became visible/invisible
○ when the session is loaded and what are the changes
● Each page can react
○ to refresh its content
○ to launch other actions
○ update the editor : update its position, its label, or disappear
Sirius5.1

55. @melaniebats
Extensible Dashboard
Sirius5.1

56. @melaniebats
Improve the end user experience
● Better Snap to grid
Sirius5.1

57. @melaniebats
Improve the end user experience
● Better Snap to grid
● Remove bendpoints of rectilinear edge
Sirius5.1

58. @melaniebats
Improve the end user experience
● Better Snap to grid
● Remove bendpoints of rectilinear edge
● Selection of partially visible elements
Sirius5.1

59. @melaniebats
Improve the end user experience
● Better Snap to grid
● Remove bendpoints of rectilinear edge
● Selection of partially visible elements
● Resizing combined fragment in Sequence diagram
Sirius5.1

60. @melaniebats
Improve the end user experience
● Better Snap to grid
● Remove bendpoints of rectilinear edge
● Selection of partially visible elements
● Resizing combined fragment in Sequence diagram
● Direct edit in trees
Sirius5.1

61. @melaniebats
Generic model creation wizard
● Used since 5.0 in the dashboard
editor
● Public API available since 5.1 :
oes.ui.tools.api.wizards.CreateEMFModelWizard
Sirius5.1

62. @melaniebats
Lazy loading mode
Sirius5.1
Experim
ental
● Load representations on demand
● Not during the session opening
● Split Aird
● Can be activated thanks to a system property :
createLocalRepresentationInSeparateResource=true

63. @melaniebats
Faster Obeo Designer Team!

64. @melaniebats
08/2017 - Happy 10 years
Sirius!

65. @melaniebats
The whole decade Sirius Team
Alex Lagarde
Axel Richard
Aristide Martin
Belqassim Djafer
Benjamin Grouhan
Cédric Brun
Cédric Notot
Damien Lecan
Esteban Dugueperoux
Florent Latombe
Florian Barbin
Franck Morel
Guillaume Coutable
Guillaume Ghebart
Hugo Marchadour
Stéphane Bégaudeau
Stéphane Bouchet
Steve Monnier
William Piers
Yann Mortier
… everyone at Obeo, Thales, all
our customers and the whole Sirius
community who collaborate with us
all along.
Jessy Mallet
Julien Dupont
Laurent Delaigue
Laurent Fasani
Laurent Goubet
Laurent Redor
Loredana Chituc
Mariot Chauvin
Marwa Rostren
Maxime Porhel
Mélanie Bats
Mickael Lanoé
Nathalie Lépine
Pierre Guilet
Pierre-Charles David
Thanks!

66. @melaniebats
Active dev
11 active committers
249 issues fixed this year

67. @melaniebats
A mix of Maintenance & Enhancements!

68. @melaniebats
What’s next ?

69. @melaniebats
06/2018 - Sirius 6.0

70. @melaniebats
Sirius 6.0
Java 8, Java 9, Java 10, Java 11…
Eclipse Neon(?), Oxygen, Photon

71. @melaniebats
Improve Xtext compatibility
Some issues already fixed
Get the white paper by Typefox & Obeo
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0

72. @melaniebats
UX improvements
Magic connector
W
ish
list
Sirius6.0

73. @melaniebats
UX improvements
Magic connector
Rotatable port
W
ish
list
Sirius6.0

74. @melaniebats
UX improvements
Magic connector
Rotatable port
Deletion confirmation dialog
W
ish
list
Sirius6.0

75. @melaniebats
1 click product
To create easily your own product based on Sirius
W
ish
list
Sirius6.0

76. @melaniebats
Early Access Program
A web page to follow the developments
Preview next feature
thanks to beta versions of Obeo Designer Community Edition
Sirius6.0
W
ork
in
progress

77. @melaniebats
Since time immemorial ...

78. @melaniebats
Light client

79. @melaniebats
Light client
Rich application
vs

80. @melaniebats
HTML
renderer

81. @melaniebats
Sirius
Designer
s
HTML
renderer

82. @melaniebats
Sirius
Designer
s
HTML
renderer
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0

83. @melaniebats
Sirius + HTML =
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0
Reconciled in Eclipse

84. @melaniebats
Sirius + HTML =
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0
Reconciled in Web browser

85. @melaniebats
1st usecase: Activity Explorer
Workflow definition
in Sirius
HTML renderer
In the Sirius
Dashboard
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0

86. @melaniebats
Sirius + HTML =
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0

87. @melaniebats
Next step ? Diagram in the web?
Sprotty is an open source web-based framework for diagrams
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius6.0
Sprotty demos

88. @melaniebats
Next step ? Diagram in the web?
Sprotty is an open source web-based framework for diagrams
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius6.0
● clean & well structured
● integrated with layout mechanism : ELK
● good collaboration with Typefox
Sprotty demos

89. @melaniebats
Next step ? Diagram in the web?
Obeo explore a Sprotty’s integration with Sirius designers to
ease model exploration and documentation
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius6.0

90. @melaniebats
To infinity ...

91. @melaniebats
LSP ?
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius?.0

92. @melaniebats
LSP ?
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius42.0

93. @melaniebats
LSP ?
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
Need
yoursupport!
Sirius42.0

94. @melaniebats
And beyond ...

95. @melaniebats
Chatbots
W
hyNot?
Sirius42.0

96. @melaniebats
Deep learning
Soundscool:)
Sirius42.0
Layout?

97. @melaniebats
Blockchain
Buzzword!
Sirius42.0
Model collaboration?

98. @melaniebats
Virtual Reality?
OM
G!Sirius42.0

99. @melaniebats
What do you want ?
Fill the Sirius survey:
http://bit.ly/SiriusCommunitySurvey

100. @melaniebats
Thanks!
Questions you
have?
Discuss we shall!