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What's new in Eclipse Modeling
The Eclipse Modeling Project focuses on the evolution and promotion of model-based development technologies within the Eclipse community by providing a unified set of modeling frameworks, tooling, and standards implementations. This presentation will explore the content and future plan for this project and its components, with a particular focus on GMF. The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF. An overview of this project?s history, current release, and future plans will be presented, along with a demonstration of how GMF will be bringing UML2 diagramming to Eclipse.
The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) provides Ecore as a model for describing models. Other model forms such as XML Schema, UML2, and annotated Java can be mapped to Ecore and vice versa, concretely demonstrating that all these model forms are effectively equivalent, not just at an abstract level, but in a real and very useful sense. During the Callisto development cycle, EMF introduced an exporter framework to compliment the existing importer framework so that additional model conversions can be plugged in. EMF also improved its XML Schema -> Ecore mapping and its Ecore -> XML Schema mapping, so that it's now the case that Ecore -> XML Schema -> Ecore, Ecore -> UML2 -> Ecore, and Ecore -> Java -> Ecore are all round trips. This allows clients to focus on whichever model form they prefer or have available as their as their primary model and allows multiple model forms to be used interchangeably since any one can be generated from any other with Ecore acting as the hub. This presentation will focus primarily on demonstrating the tools in action to give a flavor for how EMF can be used in your day to day development work. Modeling isn't just for modelers anymore.
The Eclipse Modeling Project also contains a Model-to-Text generator component. An initial contribution to this component will be openArchitectureWare (oAW), a toolkit for model-driven development currently hosted as part of the Eclipse GMT project. In this talk, Bernd and Markus will introduce openArchitectureWare with a particular focus on the code generation aspect of the tool. We will also take a brief look at other parts of oAW, namely, the model transformation language, the extension facility, constraint checks, the workflow engine and the recipe framework.
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12.10.2006
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What's new in Eclipse Modeling
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Ed Merks
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Rich Gronback
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Bernd Kolb
Conference:
 Eclipse Summit 2006
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