[aadl]: New OSATE2 Snapshot Release

[Lutz Wrage]

All,

A new snapshot release for OSATE2 is now available for download at
http://gforge.enseeiht.fr/projects/osate2/

We are planning to make new snapshot releases available periodically,
about once per month. You can subscribe to project RSS feeds to be informed
about their availability. 
See http://gforge.enseeiht.fr/export/rss_project.php?group_id=132

Sources are available at https://github.com/osate

An OSATE2 user forum is available at
http://gforge.enseeiht.fr/forum/?group_id=132

Please report bugs at
https://github.com/osate/osate2-core/issues


Release Notes:

This version of OSATE2 uses XText instead of a custom builder to parse AADL2.
The XText generated AADL text editor has many more features compared to OSATE1,
and AAXL files are no longer needed to process declarative AADL models.

OSATE2 makes use of project dependencies to find referenced packages in other 
projects.

A project 'Plugin_Resources' containing the standard property sets can be created
using the context menu of the project explorer view.

Instantiation of a model is done via the context menu in the text editor when
the cursor is inside a system implementation declaration or in the outline view.

If needed, it is possible to generate aaxl files from the context menu.

OSATE2 is now built using Tycho, which has two bugs that currently prevent us 
from building an OSX version.

Note: This release does not contain any analysis plugins.

Known issues:
- The AADL perspective does not work correctly
- Instantiation is incomplete w.r.t. 
  - properties (no list properties), 
  - connections (no processing of connection patterns), and 
  - flows (no flows for connection patterns).
- Cross file references in manually generated AAXL files are in a wrong format
- Some AADL editor features (code completion, templates) are still disabled 
  because of an issue with the XText code generator


Next steps:

We are focusing on implementing the following major features.
- Complete instantiation
- Analysis plugins
- Annex plugin interface
- Complete semantic checking

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Lutz Wrage
Carnegie Mellon University / Software Engineering Institute
Research, Technology, and Systems Solutions Program
412-268-7771