Franca 0.11.0 available

[Klaus Birken]

Hi all,

Franca 0.11.0 is available! It comes with a lot of new features and improvements, among them transformations from OMG IDL (aka Corba) and Google Protobuf to Franca IDL. Developers of standalone (command-line) generators and transformations will now find support in the framework which simplifies the task a lot. The framework now also supports adding specific validators for deployment models. See a list of all new features and bugfixes below.

Franca 0.11.0 can be downloaded from Google Drive. See below a list of new features in 0.11.0, please refer to the corresponding issues in the Franca issue tracker for details.

Best regards,

Klaus

New with version 0.11.0 (clickable version on github)

- IDL: Support public visibility flag for user-defined types in interfaces (issue 189)

- IDL: Provide auto-complete for import statements (issue 152)

- IDL: Support new tag “@return” in structured comments (issue 175)

- IDL: Support using characters “@” and “*” (star) in structured comments (issues 54, 137, 173)

- IDL: Method errors can have a structured comment now (issue 168)

- Deployment: Support external deployment validators (issue 171)

- Deployment: Added new host type “for fields” (issue 162)

- Deployment: Improve handling of escaped identifiers (issues 157, 160)

- Deployment: Allow negative values for integer deployment property value (issue 158)

- Deployment: Provide auto-complete for import statements (issue 152)

- Deployment: Added model validation rules for name clashes in generated code (issue 101)

- Framework: Provide base class for building command line tools (issue 188)

- Framework: Allow changing of out/err streams for Franca connectors (issue 161)

- Tools: Provide transformation from Google Protobuf to Franca IDL (issue 184)

- Tools: Provide transformation from OMG IDL (aka Corba) to Franca IDL (issue 183)

- Tools: Improve VIM highlighting (issue 192)

- Bugfix: Fix serialization of double/float constant initializers (issue 185)

- Develop: Lift Franca to Xtext/Xtend 2.8 (issue 192)

- Develop: Package FDeploy ecore models in binary distribution (issue 176)

- Examples: Remove warnings from example projects (issue 164)