Boeing Proposes Systems Engineering Project at Eclipse
Boeing has proposed a systems engineering project at Eclipse. The Open System Engineering Environment (OSEE) Project is a proposed open source project under the Eclipse Technology Project.
According to the proposal, "OSEE was designed and architected to provide Subject Matter Experts effective access to the data they need across the engineering lifecycle in a single, integrated environment. OSEE is being developed using a spiral methodology and deployed as those capabilities are needed to develop the next generation mission software for an existing Boeing aircraft."
Says Donald Smith about the project and the team behind it, “I have been in contact with this group at Boeing for a couple of months and their enthusiasm towards open source and their desire to contribute and show leadership in open source is great to see.”
The objectives of the project include:
Provide an extensible application framework and core services which enables a rich and diverse set of applications to share a common persistence layer providing access control, advanced version control, and dynamic object models through standard Eclipse mechanisms while reducing the heavy burden on applications that such capabilities normally entail
Provide exemplary applications which demonstrate how the OSEE application framework and services can be used to create tightly integrated applications
Provide an integrated environment for Subject Matter Experts to create and utilize data throughout the engineering lifecycle
Allow the engineering lifecycle data to be delivered in an environment that supports sophisticated navigation, visualization, and reporting
Expand the Eclipse user community to include the broad spectrum of engineering disciplines
Foster an ecosystem involving universities and organizations engaged in engineering of products and the customers of these resulting products
The test environment leverages off JDT and CDT. OSEE utilizes Mylar's Zest viewer for 2D data visualization. Additional opportunities exist for integrations between ATS and Mylar. BIRT is the choice for providing graphical representations of metrics produced by ATS. OSEE also utilizes advanced SWT widgets that could be contributed to the Nebula project.