2 years after the creation of the Sirius Eclipse project let's take a few minutes to look at what happened and where we are headed.

1. SIRIUS
ORIGINS, PRESENT, FUTURE
Presented by /
Slides published at
Cédric Brun @bruncedric
http://cedric.brun.io/talks

2. CTO @ OBEO
LONG HISTORY WITH SIRIUS

3. ORIGINS OF AN OSS PROJECT

5. GOING OSS

6. “Sirius is an Eclipse project which aims at providing specific multi-view modeling workbenches
through diagram, table or tree editors based on EMF.
Users can easily define their own modeling workbench, even with very little technical knowledge of
Eclipse, while still being able to deeply customize it when needed.”

7. MISSION STATEMENT
“Lower the barrier of entry to create and
deploy state of the art tools, for any domain
language.”

8. Sirius 0.9
Sirius 1.0
Sirius 2.0
☑ renamed and on Eclipse.org
☑ infrastructure and team 100% operational
☑ up to speed

9. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT ?

10. A "FEW" RELASES
Version Date Closed Feature Requests
1.0.0(Luna) Jun 14, 2014
100 2
1.0.1(Luna SR1) Aug 14, 2014
20 -
1.0.2(Luna SR2) Jan 28, 2015
9 -
2.0.0 Oct 14, 2014
113 27
2.0.1 Nov 14, 2014
2 -
2.0.2 Dec 14, 2014
15 -
2.0.3 Jan 15, 2015
16 -
2.0.4 Feb 15, 2015
8 -
2.0.5 Apr 15, 2015
8 -
2.0.6 Jun 06, 2015
2 -
3.0.0(Mars) Jun 14, 2015
219 35
3.0.1 Sep 10, 2015
14 -
3.0.2(Mars.1) Sep 15, 2015
3 -
3.1.0 Oct 15, 2015
82 17
3.1.1 Oct 29, 2015
5 -
Total 616 81

11. A "FEW" RELASES
Version Date Closed Feature Requests
1.0.0(Luna) Jun 14, 2014
100 2
Aug 14, 2014
20 -
Jan 28, 2015
9 -
2.0.0 Oct 14, 2014
113 27
Nov 14, 2014
2 -
Dec 14, 2014
15 -
Jan 15, 2015
16 -
Feb 15, 2015
8 -
Apr 15, 2015
8 -
Jun 06, 2015
2 -
3.0.0(Mars) Jun 14, 2015
219 35
Sep 10, 2015
14 -
Sep 15, 2015
3 -
3.1.0 Oct 15, 2015
82 17
Oct 29, 2015
5 -
Total 616 81

12. MAJOR VERSIONS!

13. UPGRADING
The runtime handles .odesign and .aird models for you
Easy process :
1. Check release notes for user-visible changes.
2. Change update-site, versions
3. In case of impacting API change, re-check the
for instructions
release
notes
(EcoreTools and UML Designer had no impact whatsoever)

14. WHAT'S NEW SINCE SIRIUS 1.0 ?

15. ACCELEO QUERY LANGUAGE

16. IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICALLY TAILORED FOR
THE SIRIUS USE CASE

17. SIRIUS USE CASE ?
Many variables for a given expression
nullvalues are common
Navigation with many steps aggregating data
Interactive use : context is constantly changing
Complex or custom logic : Java Services
Predictable ordering and performance overhead .

18. LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS
You know OCL ? Then you know AQL
No implicit variables
aql:nameis invalid and become aql:self.name
aql:self.eContents()‐>select(name.startsWith('A'))is invalid and become
aql:self.eContents()‐>select(i | i.name.startsWith('A')
self.referenceWithNoValue.someOtherAttributehas no evaluation error, and returns
"Nothing"
Classic operations : filter, collect
Convenient operations : eInverse(), eResource()..

19. NOT STRICTLY COMPATIBLE* WITH MTL
*: BUT A SUBSET OF MTL WORKS FOR BOTH

20. QUERIES ENGINES -- OVERHEAD BENCH

22. in preference to Acceleo 3 or OCL
simpler for querying EMF models
more concise and very easy to learn
improved code completion
improved syntax errors detection

23. RECOMMENDED QUERY LANGUAGE FOR SIRIUS 3.1.0

25. https://wiki.eclipse.org/Sirius/Update_Sites

26. DEFINITION TOOLING
Workspace class loading is BACK
Image path validation and selection wizard
Quick Outline
Prioritized sub menus
...

27. DIAGRAM USER EXPERIENCE

28. RESIZING A CONTAINER (1.0)

29. RESIZING A CONTAINER (2.0)

30. POSITIONING THINGS
Snap To Shape enabled by default for new diagrams
Snape To All Shapes mode (F4)
Snap To Grid now used when an element is created
Resize no longer change ports or children's location
Actions to distribute shapes
Action to reset the diagram origin

31. EDGES LAYOUTING (1.0)

32. EDGES LAYOUTING (2.0)

33. EDGES LABEL INSTABILITY (3.0)

34. EDGES LABELS STABILITY (3.1)

35. BI-DIRECTIONAL LINK WITH EDITOR

36. SELECTION AFTER TOOL EXECUTION

37. BEAUTIFUL EDITORS

38. ANCHOR ON BORDERS 1.0

39. ANCHOR ON BORDERS 3.0

40. UNDERLINED AND STRIKE-THROUGH STYLE FOR
LABELS

41. CUSTOMIZABLE BORDER STYLE

42. COMPARTMENTS
Full blown "Mapping"
static or dynamic number of compartments
leverage queries

43. COMPARTMENTS
Complete with 3.1
Corner cases and polish for 3.1
Collapse

44. COMPARTMENTS
Complete

45. FIRST STEPS
RUNTIME STRINGS ARE EXTERNALIZED
I18N SERVICES FOR AQL
DEDICATED MECHANISM FOR .ODESIGN MODEL

46. FASTER

47. GOAL : 1 MILLION MODEL ELEMENTS

48. DEMO

49. CONSTANT IMPROVEMENTS
Time (sec) Heap (Mb) Time Variation Heap Variation
Open Huge Project 10 276 -91,00% -20,00%
Open Big Class Diagram 5 24 -75,00% +20,00%
Refresh Big Class Diagram 0,731 0 -40,00% 0,00%
Save After Diagram Change 26 0 -23,00% 0,00%
Close Diagram 0,1 -6 0,00% 0,00%
Close Project 55 294 0,00% 0,00%

50. BIG OPERATIONS
Models Footprint, ~20% improvement
use of MinimalEObject
Colors transformed from full-blown EObject to
Immutable DataType
detection and correction of leaks
reduce usage of Adapters
Save Strategy
Improvements in the Image cache...

51. LATENCY
Diagram Refresh
UI Runtime
Model Element Selection Dialogs for big models
Right-click latency in the explorer
Better integration with EEF (property views)
Tables
SWT Refreshes now done as a batch
Table model refresh improvements

52. SIRIUS NEEDS YOU !
Performances depends on your .odesign specification
Focus on queries wich would depend on the number of
elements in the whole model
Measure*, Improve, Repeat
*: Sirius embedded profiler is one click away

53. A BRIGHT FUTURE

54. SIRIUS : RICH PROPERTY VIEWS

55. THINGS WE ♡ IN SIRIUS ...
Define your properties in the .odesign file
Dynamic, no code generation involved
Flexible even for complex Ecore models
... APPLIED FOR THE PROPERTY VIEWS

56. EARLY ADOPTERS

58. ALREADY IN SIRIUS 4.0
Possibility to contribute SVG shapes : stencils pack
API to control the "tab-bar"
Improvement on edge reconnection feedback

59. OTHER POTENTIAL THEMES FOR ECLIPSE NEON
Bugfixes, Scalability, Performance, Headless
Better SVG rendering
Better integration with EMF Edit
Prefered side for ports
Improve the i18n Story
Your priority

60. LONG TERM, ONE STEP AT A TIME
Push limits
Scalability, Improvements in underlying technologies
Sirius Everywhere
Embeddable, reduced dependencies
...

61. ECLIPSE CONFERENCES, ROADSHOWS, DEVOXX, DEMOCAMPS

62. 114 HITS FOR GITHUB REPOSITORIES USING
SIRIUS

63. ...
CloudScale-Project/ArchitecturalTemplates
The Architectural Template method is an efficient
design-time engineering method for analyzing
scalability, elasticity, and efficiency properties of SaaS
applications.
steindani/sihuhu
Basic DSL for a model railway, created at the FTSRG,
BUTE
Boereck/odesign-designer
Designer to graphicaly design .odesign files.
...

64. WANT TO SHARE WHAT YOU DID ?
GET YOUR ENTRY IN THE GALLERY THROUGH BUG 448492

65. THE O-TEAM
FORUMS : 100 MESSAGES AND 30 AUTHORS EVERY MONTH

66. TAKE AWAYS
Sirius : "State of The Art" modeling tools.
Serene evolutions
A rising Community
JUST THE BEGINNING !

67. TO BE CONTINUED...
Presented by /Cédric Brun @bruncedric
Slides published at http://cedric.brun.io/talks