The Papyrus team are doing a great job integrating Textual DSLs with graphical modelings. I am happy that we could help them a bit in integrating Xtext with their modeling tool. The combination solves several usability glitches that I hated in all modeling tools: Adding attributes through a property sheet is cumbersome. I have created [...]
Nirmal Sasidharan kindly helped in providing an English translation of our Autosar / Artop activities: Standardized platforms are the solutions to increased development costs and quality problems in many areas of software development. In the automotive industry, platforms for the ECU Software have been defined within AUTOSAR and Genivi. OEMs and suppliers are thereby assured [...]
Robert Bosch GmbH has joined Eclipse as a Solution Member. Within the automotive domain, the membership of Bosch is a significant signal, since it is the first time that an OEM or a 1-st tier supplier supports Eclipse in this way. It reflects the fact that Eclipse has established itself in the development tool chain [...]
I have been following the development / adoption of MDSD in China for a while. The blogging community does not seem to be as active as in Europe, since there are only a few blogs where MDSD is addressed and the search engine hits for MDSD in Chinese often refer to articles about MDA from [...]
A few days ago I posted a comment on Jim Whitehurst’s article, stating my opinion that his request to make mission critical application software of the ECUs is unrealistic. So does that mean that open source software has no future in automotive? Of course not. The software of an automotive company could be divided into [...]
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst voices his opinion that open sourcing the embedded software in automobiles would significantly increase quality in an article published in business weekly. Being an advocate of open source myself, I still think Mr. Whitehurst hasn’t done the open source community a service, because he superficially claims that open sourcing software [...]
Some of the screencasts explaining an MDSD showcase have just been published on my youtube site. The introductory screencast to our showcase: This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. The screencast explaining Xtext in our showcase (in 3 parts): This video was [...]
Letzte Woche hat mein Web’N’Walk Stick von t-mobile aufgehört zu arbeiten. Auf Grund irgendeiner anderen Software waren wohl die Treiber zerschossen. Leider konnte ich bei t-mobile keinen Download für neue Treiber finden. Mit ein bisschen Recherche fand ich folgende Lösung: Treiber für meinen Stick gibt’s bei www.option.com. Neu installiert, jetzt tut wieder alles.
I was just trying to set up a M2M transformation from a textual DSL to UML2 with the Galileo release. Obviously, a lot of paths have changed from oAW to Galileo, so this needs some work. However, I had an error, that annoyed me. In the editor, everything was fine, no errors, but when running [...]
The UML-Taiwan Blog has several posts containing a style guide for UML diagrams. It turns out hat the posts are a chinese summary of “The Elements of UML 2.0 Style” by Scott Ambler. You can find excerpts of the book on Google’s book search. It has been on the market for several years – and [...]