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My own presentation (not very fancy slides...) was about a MetaCASE tool called "unicase", suitable for smaller collaborative projects and especially targeting research projects with special needs such as a new methodology, or other individual model requirements. It is being developed at the TU München by a team around a good friend of mine, Maximilian Kögel. Its main features are model generation from an ECORE meta model (it's Eclipse based), so you can easily introduce new model elements and regenerate your client. The central repository with similar concepts as Subversion (checkout, commit, update) is able to work with any meta model compliant models, and the client tracks any changes to the model and the client usage, which is especially useful for research projects interested in how their application is being used.
Unfortunately, the most important part of the presentation was a live demo, where I showed how you can easily generate a "new client" by small changes to the meta model. The unicase website has screencasts of most features though, so if you're interested, you can watch it there.

If you want to try it out, I'll explain the few steps required to get your own local server and clients to run. If you just want to try the client, they have an update site you can easy add to your current Eclipse installation, and a standalone download. Unfortunately, the link to the relevant unicase documentation is "hidden" in the right sidebar, whereas the main documentation link in the center of the page currently leads to a mostly empty wiki page. Continue reading "TYPO3 v5, FLOW3 and Unicase"