EclipseCon 2012
Abstract
From 26th − 29th March 2012, the Eclipse community will meet in Reston (Virginia, NA) for their annual conference. As a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, itemis will also showcase their latest technology at EclipseCon 2012. In a three-hour tutorial advanced Java developers will learn the development of their own domain specific languages (DSL). In other Sessions we present the newest features of the Java extension Xtend and Xcore, a DSL for describing EMF models. We are looking forward to meet you at our booth No. 3.
From March 26th - 29th 2012 the EclipseCon developing community is meeting in Reston, Virginia for their annual conference.
The visitors can participate in additional co-located conferences: Agile ALM Connect and OSGi DevCon.
itemis, being among the bronze-sponsors, is pleased to contribute to the Worlds biggest Eclipse Community events' Succes through various lectures and workshops.
See http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/program/session-schedule and http://www.eclipsecon.org/2012/program/session-schedule/tutorials for the current EclipseCon program with all sessions and tutorials.
We are looking forward to introducing you to our company's latest developments and services in person. You will find the itemis staff at exhibition stand 3.
Agenda
26th March
11:15 - 12:00 Uhr - DSLs for Java Developers With Xtext - Sebastian Zarnekow, Jan Köhnlein
27th March
11:15 - 12:00 Uhr - Domain Specific Languages - Sven Efftinge
13:30 - 14:15 Uhr - Spraying - a quick way to create Graphitis - Karsten Thoms
14:15 - 15:00 Uhr - GEF - Past, Present, and Future - Alexander Nyßen
16:15 - 17:00 Uhr - A Fresh Look at Graphical Editing - Jan Köhnlein
28th March
17:00 - 17:50 Uhr - Xcore: Ecore Meets Xtext - Ed Merks
29th March
11:00 - 11:45 Uhr - Eclipse Xtend - A Language Made For Java Developers - Sven Efftinge
13:30 - 14:15 Uhr - YAKINDU SCT - Domain-Specific Statecharts - Alexander Nyßen, Axel Terfloth
15:00 - 15:45 Uhr - Xtext - Best Practices - Sebastian Zarnekow
itemis speaker
Sebastian Zarnekow, Software Architect
Sebastion Zarnekow works for itemis AG in Kiel. As a co-architect of the language Xtend (http://xtend-lang.org) and the Xtext framework (http://xtext.org), he has specialized in the design of programming languages, their implementation and the development of integrated editors in the Eclipse environment. Sebastian Zarnekow speaks regularly at international conferences and is the author of many professional articles.
Dr. Jan Köhnlein, Software Architect and Coach
Dr. Jan Köhnlein works as a software architect and coach for itemis in Kiel. He is an expert for model-based software development and holds workshops and lectures on the topics of Eclipse, EMF, GMF and modeling tools.
Dr. Jan Köhnlein leads the open-source projects EMF Index and GMFTools. Furthermore he is also a committer in the Eclipse projects Xtext, Xpand and MWE as well as for openArchitectureWare.
After completing his studies in mathematics at the University of Hamburg, Dr. Jan Köhnlein went on to do a doctorate at the TU Hamburg-Harburg in computer science. Before he reinforced the itemis team, he worked at Gentleware AG among other things as a consultant and coach in the field of modeling.
Sven Efftinge, Branch Manager itemis Kiel
Sven Efftinge manages the itemis branch in Kiel and engages himself there with domain specific languages, generator development and eclipse technologies. He is an eclipse committer and is responsible for the Xtext-framework and architect of the Xpand-language family (also known as openArchitectureWare).
Sven Efftinge regularly speaks at software conferences, writes professional articles and is co-author of the book “Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung”, (Model-Driven Software Development) (published at dpunkt-Verlag).
Karsten Thoms, Software Architect and Coach
Karsten Thoms has been employed by itemis AG for over 6 years as a software architect and coach. His main focus is in the development of individual enterprise systems. Especially in the field of model driven software development, he has made a name for himself as an expert.
He has been active in the openArchitectureWare project for several years now, he is project manager of the Fornax platform, an Eclipse committer and founder of the Fit4oaw project. He regularly passes on his experiences in customer projects, at conferences and as a trainer.
Dr. Alexander Nyßen, Software Architect and Coach
Alexander Nyßen works as a software engineer for itemis AG in Lünen, Germany. He is strongly committed to model-driven software engineering and has special interest in graphical modeling languages and Eclipse-based technology. Accordingly he is active committer of the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) project.
Ed Merks, Development manager for Eclipse Modeling
Merks comes from IBM, where he last worked in the IBM Rational Toronto Lab. He leads the Eclipse Modeling Project and the Eclipse Modeling Framework and will work for itemis AG from Canada. Merks graduated from Simon Fraser University and holds a Ph.D. in Computing Science.
Axel Terfloth, Head of Department for Embedded-Development
Axel Terfloth leads the research and development in the area of embedded development for itemis. He deals with the adaptation and further development of methods and technologies in model-based software development, especially for the development of embedded systems.
Axel Terfloth already has over 15 years of experience as a developer, software architect and project leader, as well as having gathered experience in the fields of project– and product development at various companies. His interests and main focuses are software architectures, model-based software development, the development of frameworks and modelling tools as well as agile development processes. Furthermore he engages himself in open-source-projects.
Axel Terfloth holds a degree in computer science and is a graduate of Dortmund University.