What every Eclipse developer should know about EMF - Tutorial at EclipseCon

What every Eclipse Developer should know about EMF
Jonas Helming
Maximilian Koegel
EclipseSource
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More speakers Eike Stepper Mariot Chauvin Nitesh Narayan Otto Wesendonk Saurav Sakar Cedric Brun

Why so many speakers? EMF EMFStore CDO EDAPT GMF EEF EMF Query EMF Compare EMF Client Platform

EMF Which persistency framework should we use? Ignite Talks

Hands-on Tutorial - Installation
Get a (fresh) instance of Eclipse Helios Modeling Edition for your OS
Copy exampleSolution.zip (will be used later)

Agenda
Start installation (5 minutes)
Introduction (10 minutes)
EMF modeling (1 hour)
Ignite: EDAPT
EMF API (30 minutes)
Data-Management for EMF models (15 minutes)
Ignites: EMFStore, CDO
User interfaces for EMF models (15 minutes)
Ignites: EEF, EMF Client Platform, GMF
Advanced Technology Overview (5 minutes)
Ignites: EMF Compare, EMF Query

What is EMF?
The EMF project is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model . From a model specification described in XMI, EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, along with a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor .

What is EMF?
Pragmatic Modeling Framework
Code Generation
Structured data model
Java classes
Adapter classes
Viewing
Command-based editing
Basic editor
+ Stable standard for many model-related technologies

When to use EMF?
For any structured data-model in Eclipse application which might
Get stored
Displayed in a UI
Modified in a UI

EMF workflow Ecore Model Java Code EPackage EClass EAttribute EReference Package Class Attribute Reference Code generation

IDE vs. Runtime IDE Runtime starts

Example Model: Bowling

Containment in EMF

BUT...
Why is this better than writing POJOS?
Where is the source code?
Warning: Marketing ahead

EDAPT Ignite

Agenda

Let`s look at the source code

EMF API
Code Walk-Through
Create and modify EObjects
Use Reflective API
Validation
Utilities

Agenda

Break / Please import example model
Switch to a fresh workspace
Import exampleSolution.zip

Concept of AdapterFactories Generated by EMF: ... You need this

Data-Management
Load EObjects from a XMI Ressource
Serialize EObjects to a XMI Ressource
Use EMF Commands
Ignite talks:
EMFStore
CDO

User Interfaces
Notification
Creating a TreeView
Content Provider
Label Provider

How does a TreeViewer work? Input

Advanced Technology Overview
Teneo
XText
Ignite: EMF Compare
Ignite: EMF Query

More Information about EMF
http://eclipse.org/modeling/emf/
Newsgroups:
eclipse.tools.emf
eclipse.technology.emft
This tutorial will be blogged:
http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/author/jhelming

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