RSARTE 10.x 2017.40

Time flies and it's already time for new RSARTE releases. Today we deliver two new versions: RSARTE 10.1 2017.40 for Eclipse Neon and RSARTE 10.2 2017.40 for Eclipse Oxygen. Note that RSARTE 10.2 is still experimental since there are some known issues with it.

This sprint started with a workshop in Moscow where the whole RSARTE development team got together for planning future RSARTE releases. Although this meant one week less of development time, we all agreed this was well spent time, to give everyone a common understanding of the direction in which RSARTE is heading.

*The majority of the RSARTE development team*

The following improvements made in this sprint are worth highlighting (references to the updated What's New presentation within brackets):

• A new command "Automatic Reference Fixup" was implemented and is available in the Refactor context menu of the Project Explorer. It makes it significantly easier to update large number of references that have become broken, for example due to refactorings. [p 36]
• The RSARTE EGit integration was updated for the latest EGit version (4.8.1) and included in the RSARTE 10.2 installation.
• An experimental version of BIRT (the Eclipse reporting project) is now included in the RSARTE 10.2 installation.
• Support for build variants using JavaScript was introduced. This feature makes it possible to build multiple variants of an application from a single model and single set of transformation configuration files. [p 44 - 45]
• Search now supports Eclipse linked resources (virtual folders).

Mattias Mohlin
Architect for IBM Model RealTime