1.
Sirius Role Playing Game
Build diagram, table
and tree editors in 20 minutes
Stéphane Bonnet (Thales, Sirius co-lead)
Cédric Brun (Obeo, Sirius commiter)
http://www.eclipse.org/sirius

2.
What is Sirius?

3.
Sirius in a nutshell
● A system to quickly define custom multi-
view worbenches
– Based on graphical editors/modelers
● Based on Eclipse Modeling Technologies
– No need to be an expert for most uses
● New Eclipse Project
– But already proven technology

4.
What benefits?
● For developers: reduce cost & complexity
– No need to be a GMF expert
– Dynamic & iterative (live) development
● For end-users
– Tools adapted to their needs and workflows
– Improved experience (compared to raw GMF)

5.
Two parts
for two kinds of users
Specification
Environment
(Specifier/Developer)
Runtime Environment
(End-user)

6.
The Specification Environment
● Define custom multi-view
workbenches
– Diagrams, Trees, Tables
● With little technical
knowledge
● Get a working modeler fast
– instant feedback
● Highly customizable
– native tooling
– Java or extension points

7.
The Runtime
● Executes the
specification
● No code generation
● Environment adapted
to user needs
● Viewpoint-based
● Simplified workflow
● Modeling Project Row 1 Row 2 Row 3 Row 4
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Column 1
Column 2
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8.
Sirius in Action

9.
Live Demo
Stéphane will play
the Customer
Expresses the needs
No technical
knowledge
Cédric will play the
Specifier
Implements the
modelers
● Eclipse 4.4M6 (Luna)
● Sirius 1.0M6

10.
Sirius in Action
What the customer wants:

11.
Sirius in Action
What the customer
asked for:
What he actually
needed and got:

12.
What one can get…
…in more than 20 minutes
Thales System Engineering
Workbench

13.
Sirius in Thales (1/2)
●
A Sirius-based modeling
ecosystem
– From ad-hoc DSLs to
fully industrial products
●
Scalable
– 400+ EClasses,
– 30+ kinds of diagrams
– 1,5+M EOjects (and
counting)
●
Widely deployed
– Dozens of Sirius-
specifiers
– Hundreds of daily-users
of Sirius runtime

14.
Sirius in Thales (2/2)
Capella enrichment with domain-specific viewpoints
●
Extensions of the core product
– New representations,
layers, style
customizations
●
Simplistic
– Annotation-based
coloring of elements
●
Advanced
– Performance, Safety,
IVVQ, Product Line,
Computation, Etc.

15.
Other Sirius references
● Embedded in the Obeo Designer and Obeo SmartEA
(proprietary) products for 4 years
– many use cases & customers
● At Eclipse.org : EcoreTools 2.0 (Luna)
● Open Source modelers on Github and the
MarketPlace
– Many fields (UML, Risk Analysis, SysML, TOGAF, Entity...)
– 2800+ installs in February 2014
● And now... you!
– Public release v0.9 made available in November 2013
– Version v1.0 planned for Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

16.
Themes for 2014
● Streamline and separate API levels (Core, RCP,
IDE / Diagram,Table...)
● Feedback and error messages for Specifier
● Improve the onboarding experience
● Performance and scalability: aiming at lazyness
● Diagram features: user experience,
compartments
● Support and maintenance

17.
Roadmap

18.
Conclusion

19.
Three things to remember
about Sirius
1. A full-featured environment to create custom modelers
● Easy to use
● Fast, iterative (live) development
2. Mature, many deployements
● Inside Thales and elsewhere via Obeo Designer
3. Official Eclipse project
● around 8 full-time commiters
● Very active support on the Forum
● v0.9 released, v1.0 will be in Luna

20.
Thank You!
● Project Web Site
– http://www.eclipse.org/sirius
● How to get started
– http://wiki.eclipse.org/Sirius/Getting_Started
● Forum
– http://www.eclipse.org/forums/eclipse.sirius

21.
Sirius Related Content
On Wednesday :
EcoreTools 2.0 - the Luna Revival: 10:30, Grand Peninsula G
Let's get Sirius (BOF) : 18:00, Grand Peninsula C
On Thursday :
KitAlpha and Sirius (Poster session):10:00->13:00, Exhibit Area
Arcadia / Melody (aka Capella): 11:45 , Grand Peninsula B
Use Cases of Polarsys Technologies : 11:00, Grand Peninsula B
An Arduino Programming Platform For Kids : 14:15, Grand Peninsula A
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s
Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) for CRYSTAL – Critical System Engineering
Acceleration Joint Undertaking under grant agreement № 332830 and from specific national
programs and/or funding authorities.

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