eTrice talk on eclipse demo camp munich

1. The eTrice Eclipse Project
Henrik Rentz-Reichert
Protos Software GmbH
Eclipse Demo Camp, 23.11.2010, Munich

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Scope of eTrice
 provide an implementation of the modeling language Real Time Object
Oriented Modeling (ROOM)
 build ready to use editors for ROOM models (textual and graphical)
 create code generators and portable target runtime libraries for Java, C++,
and C
 provide built-in support for model level debugging of the running target
software: state machine animation, data inspection and manipulation and
message injection
 provide built-in possibilities for sequence diagram creation from the running
software
 support heterogenous distributed systems out of the box
 eTrice is a Modeling Toolset for event-driven, distributed embedded
systems

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Motivation: Why ROOM and not UML2?
 ROOM was developed to suit the needs of event driven
real-time software systems
 ROOM has well defined semantics (e.g. for hierarchical
state machines, message passing)
 ROOM offers powerful concepts like layering and model
level inheritance for structure and behavior
 UML2 is way more complex than ROOM

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Hierarchical Components called Actors define the Structure
of a System
ROOM Editors: Actors & Ports
Ports are the only Interfaces of an actor and define a specific
role in its environment.
Graphical Editors
(Graphiti)
Textual Editors
(Xtext)
Models can be edited with graphical or textual editors

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ROOM Editors: Statemachines
hierarchical State Machines define the dynamical behaviour
of Actors

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Model Level Debugging: MSC Generator
The events can be logged on the target to create Sequence Diagrams of
the running application
Logs can be viewed with Trace2UML (http://trace2uml.tigris.org/)

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Project Plan: Current Status
Organizational:
 incubation phase
 gathering of community
Technical:
 precursor tool Trice since 1998 -> new implementation with Eclipse
 prototype:
 ROOM grammar for static structure and behaviour
 Xtext editors
 codegenerator and middleware for Java
 first graphical editor (Actor Structure)

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eTrice Demo

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Project Plan: Next Steps
Organizational:
 initial contribution in December
 gathering community
Technical:
 Version 0.1 in March/April
 Support for modeling of Structure, Behavior and Inheritance
 Generators and middleware for Java
 Later: generators and middleware for C++ and C
 First industry pilot project until july 2011

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Thank you for your attention
Henrik Rentz-Reichert hrr@protos.de
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/etrice