Participated at Eclipse Demo Camp 2011 @ Berlin
Yesterday I visited the Eclipse Demo Camp in Berlin. The event took place on the Campus Charité Mitte. Since the beginning of my master thesis I somehow get drawn in the Eclipse Community. There are many nice tools, which can enhance the work for us developers. The schedule for the presentations can be found here.
At this point I shortly want to introduce some frameworks/apps that impressed me yesterday.
Model-based, Cross-Platform development for mobile phones: APPlause
Applause provides a DSL for the creation of native apps for Android, iOS, Windows 7, Symbian and other technologies. For me it was nice to see that the guys of Itemis are using their own technologies – in this case Xtext and Xpand – for the development of such tools.
For a deeper look, Heiko Behrens held a full hour presentation at the MobileTech Conference 2010. The video can be seen here.
Round-trip-engineering in teams with UML Lab
Another compelling application is UML Lab. The developer of Yatta presented an intuitive tool chain for the handling of UML diagrams. Moreover it allows reverse-engineering, so that a developer can pull out the architecture of his code graphically. But the main feature I saw, was the possiblity to use version control systems and merge on the layer of diagrams – not text-based on the code.
Finally, I would like to thank the organizers and speakers. Great Evening