This document summarizes the timeline and development of Sirius over the past decade. It began in 2007 with the first traces of Sirius in GMF Air. Major milestones include the first Sirius metamodel after 1 day in 2007, the initial release of Obeo Designer in 2008, and the official 1.0 release of Sirius in 2014. The document outlines ongoing maintenance and enhancement work through 2017 with the goal of improving user experience. It concludes by discussing potential future directions such as a light client, integration with HTML, LSP support, and exploring new technologies like blockchain and virtual reality.

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

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Once upon a time...

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Mesozoic
No trace of Sirius

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Cro-Magnons
First Sirius diagrams

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

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11/2005 - Meanwhile in Nantes
Obeo is Alive!

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2006 - Acceleo

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08/2007 - GMF Air
The Sirius awakens

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

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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

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The Sirius metamodel after 1 day

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First steps...

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03/2008 - Obeo Designer
The new branding

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03/2009 - Obeo Designer 4.5
Validate, fix, control

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

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05/2010 - Obeo Designer 4.6
Free edition

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Obeo Designer 4.6
Sequence diagrams
Free version for academics

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11/2010 - Obeo Designer 4.7
The rainbow version

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Obeo Designer 4.7

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03/2011 - Obeo Designer 5.0

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04/2011 - UML Designer

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1st version of UML Designer

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03/2012 - Obeo Designer 6.0

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Obeo Designer Team

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Git saved my life!

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

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

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12/2013 - Sirius 0.9

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06/2014 - Sirius 1.0

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Obeo Designer is there for you
Obeo Designer D Community Edition
All you need to work with Sirius

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Ecore tools 2.0

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Capella

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10/2014 - Sirius 2.0

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06/2015 - Sirius 3.0

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Sirius3.0

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AQL
Sirius3.0

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SiriusCon 2015

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06/2016 - Sirius 4.0

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Properties view
Sirius4.0

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10/2016 - Sirius 4.1

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Team for Capella

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06/2017 - Sirius 5.0

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

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

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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

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Dialogs
Sirius5.0

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Wizards
Sirius5.0

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Auto creation of properties view definition
Sirius5.0

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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

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Properties views extension mechanism
Sirius5.0

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

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Default dashboard
Sirius5.0

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11/2017 - Sirius 5.1

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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

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Extensible Dashboard
Sirius5.1

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Faster Obeo Designer Team!

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08/2017 - Happy 10 years
Sirius!

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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!

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Active dev
11 active committers
249 issues fixed this year

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A mix of Maintenance & Enhancements!

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What’s next ?

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06/2018 - Sirius 6.0

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

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

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UX improvements
Magic connector
W
ish
list
Sirius6.0

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

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

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

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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

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Since time immemorial ...

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Light client

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Light client
Rich application
vs

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HTML
renderer

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Sirius
Designer
s
HTML
renderer

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

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

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

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

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Sirius + HTML =
W
ork
in
progress
Sirius6.0

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

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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

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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

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To infinity ...

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

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

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

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And beyond ...

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Chatbots
W
hyNot?
Sirius42.0

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Deep learning
Soundscool:)
Sirius42.0
Layout?

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Blockchain
Buzzword!
Sirius42.0
Model collaboration?

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Virtual Reality?
OM
G!Sirius42.0

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

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Thanks!
Questions you
have?
Discuss we shall!