TBC-FE 6.0.1 source code release request

[Michel Héon]

Hello,
I am Michel Héon
Enterprise Architecture Advisor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

We are actively working on the implementation at UQAM of the open source platform VIVO, a LOD platform used for research metadata management.

To facilitate the work of ontologists, we would like to use TBC-FE for ontology editing and management of the VIVO platform. To do this, we would like to develop Eclipse plug-ins to integrate with TBC-FE.

Would you be open to give us access to the TBC-FE source code so that we can update the plug-ins to the current version of Eclipse, which we would be happy to return to you?

Thanks
Michel

[Holger Knublauch]

Hello Michel,

TBC-FE is no longer actively maintained and I would consider it quite "behind" in terms of where we have moved our focus at TopQuadrant. We cannot support custom development for it anymore.

Having said this, do you know what kind of features you would like to add? Maybe all you need is a generic Eclipse View plugin and then a pointer at the currently open Jena Model? If you're installing the Eclipse PDK you can browse through the available features of org.topbraid.core. I believe TBC.getSession() would be another starting point.

Holger

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[Michel Héon]

Hi Holger

We program intensively with the Eclipse-J2EE platform and the Eclipse Modeling Project which we use in conjunction with TBC-FE (see https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16343.60328/1). Currently, TBC-FE is built from the Neon version of Eclipse which causes us a lot of integration problems with the J2EE and Modeling plugins of the current Eclipse version (2022-06 for example)

We understand that it is no longer in your business plan to maintain the evolution of TBC-FE and that is why we are exploring the idea of you opening the source code so that the OpenSource community can take over the evolution of the product. Of course as the owner of the code, TopQuadrant would be a major beneficiary of the innovations built by the OpenSource community by including new features at little cost. This is the kind of successful strategy that has been used by IBM, among others.

As a first evolution, we would be willing at UQAM to migrate the TBC-FE code from Neon to Eclipse version 2022-06. A later phase of evolution would be a full integration with Eclipse-J2EE.

In short, is the idea of opening up the TBC-FE code and collaborating with UQAM for the evolution of TBC-FE a possibility that TopQuadrant could consider?

Michel