We’re happy to release OpenAmeos 9.5 for all customers with maintenance subscriptions. This release is primarily a bug-fix release, the following features have been added or backported from the 10.x tree:
Links (require a valid customer login on scopeforge.de):
After admittedly a while later as anticipated, we can finally release the next binary distribution of OpenAmeos. The primary new features in this release are
The reason why it took so long, were primarily plenty of regressions caused by the switch to Unicode - because of this, any system which was created before 10.2 also needs to be migrated. Please make sure you familiarize yourself with the impact of switching to Unicode, it is presently not possible to run both 9.x and 10.2 installations on the same database server. The upcoming 9.5 maintenance release will however fix this problem.
Special thanks for their help with Unicode goes to our partner Triad !
SQLite allows to run OpenAmeos on a Linux box without having to install Sybase. The installer is not perfect yet, if you don’t have Sybase, simply leave the relevant fields in the installer screens empty. All example models (both on Windows and Linux) have been converted to SQLite. Furthermore, the SQLite engine is in most cases significantly faster than MS-Jet, in particular for code generation purposes. But SQlite is a single-user engine, we keep on trying to find ways to get some funding for a port to PostgreSQL.
Since we needed profile support in the UML model exports which we use for the VSD project, we added them to the ACD metamodel and the related Ecore and XMI export templates. This might be useful for other purposes, too.
Last but not least, we also extended the JSPWiki generation and integration:
We’ve prepared a more detailed article how to work with this feature.
Links:
ScopeSET has recently been awarded a contract to build tools facilitating a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) processes. This contract is part of an ESA TRP (Technology Research Programme) project, called Virtual Spacecraft Design (VSD).
The VSD study, led by EADS Astrium, started in 2005 with the objective to analyze and improve the current spacecraft system level system engineering process. Its goal is the consistent application of model-based techniques, in order to have an improved virtual representation of a spacecraft.
ScopeSET will build the MBSE tools and related services. The new tool-set will allow the consistent definition of a spacecraft system level design, covering requirements, functional architecture, physical architecture, AIT and verification definition. All tools will be based on Eclipse and the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF).
The next version of OpenAmeos is presently in early QA. The 2 major new features are SQLite and Unicode support.
SQLite can replace MS-Jet as repository storage engine on Windows and will typically improve the overall performance of OpenAmeos. On Linux, OpenAmeos can now be used without a Sybase installation.
Unicode has been partially implemented by our partner Triad in Hungary.
In addition to this, we are also considering to include support for UML profiles in various export formats like XMI (-> profiles will be added to the ACD metamodel)
OpenAmeos 10.2 is expected to be available in fall 2009.
ScopeSET ist Partner in dem Verbundprojekt VERDE, einem vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung gefördertem Projekt.
VERDE hat zum Ziel, ein methodisches Rahmenwerk zum iterativen, inkrementellen, verifikationsorientierten Entwurf komponentenbasierter Hardware/Software-Architekturen zu definieren. Über maßgeschneiderte Schnittstellen erfolgt die Integration und Adaption von Test- und Analysewerkzeugen zur Verifikation von domänenspezifischen Anforderungen.
Gemeinsam mit Partner aus der Industrie, Forschung und Lehre wird ScopeSET entsprechende VERDE Lösungen erarbeiten. Das Projekt hat eine Laufzeit von 3 Jahren. Weitere Information werde in Kürze unter einer Projekteigenen Internetadresse veröffentlicht.
