The openArchitectureWare team is proud to present version 4.1.2. The new version is mainly a maintainance release with several bug fixes and improvements. oAW 4.1.2 works with Eclipse 3.2 and current releases of dependent features like EMF, UML2 etc.

Here is a selection of changes in the new version:

• Xtext has been improved quite a lot.
• We refactored the oAW's project builder. Especially the "phantom error" bug is fixed by this.
• oAW Classic supports MagicDraw 12 now.
• added profiling support for Xpand and Xtend. (see Release Notes)
• Sorting lists of model elements is supported (sortBy-operation, see expression reference)
• The core.workflow has the ability to register buddy loaders now, making oAW's workflow engine usable from within Eclipse plugins.
• oAW's UML2 adapter now supports multiple stereotypes for one element.
• When using the Java Metamodel constants within classes and interfaces can be accessed now.
• An ExceptionHandler interface was added which allows reacting on occuring runtime exceptions during evaluation.
• Some error reporting issues were fixed.
• The JavaBeautifier did not delete temporary files. This was fixed now.
• The implementation class of the Output interface is configurable within the Generator component. An alternative implementation was added which skips the production of blank lines.
• Guillemot brackets are accessible by CTRL+</> on Mac, too.
• a standard library with many useful extensions and utilities has been added.

See our Release Notes for a detailled list of changes.

We have reviewed some documentation, especially the EMF tutorial was improved. In the next time we will further work on improvement on the documentation. We are now using Docbook, which will allow us to produce a comprehensive documentation both in PDF and in Eclipse Help format in the future.

Further we have set up a Project Wiki at Eclipse.org to give you more information about our future planings and release plans. It is relative new and we will fill in the information now from time to time.

The project development speed, the number of users and the number of projects increase significantly. Thanks for having all of you with us! Do not stop to give us your valuable feedback.

The openArchitectureWare Team.