I have been working for few hours on EMFTA recently, taking some time off from running and focusing on writing software and trying new things (well, having a hammac in my backyard helped me to work for a while at night). The initial goal when starting EMFTA was to evaluate the Sirius modeling framework but it turned out that it went beyond that initial objective and now provides advanced features. Read more on Julien Delange's blog...

Enterprise Integration Patterns - EIP for short - is an original work by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf that provides a consistent terminology and notation to design and document integration solutions independent from implementation technologies. Read more on InfoQ...

Eclipse Mars, this year’s new platform version, has well and truly arrived! Included in the release you will find Sirius 3.0, the latest version of the solution that allows you to create a custom and dedicated graphical modeling tool. Read more on Eclipse.org...

Maxime Porhel discusses possible integration paths between Sirius and Xtext with demos based on Xtext DSLs, and the latest progress made in Sirius 3.0 regarding this integration. Read more on infoq.com...

A Fault-Tree Analysis (or FTA) is a popular safety analysis recommended by several well-known practices and standards, such as ARP4761. A FTA shows the relation between a fault and its potential contributors (error events) using a simple binary logic (and/or gates). This is nothing else than a convenient representation of the relation between error events. Read more on juli1pb.wordpress.com...