A short walk through all the productivity features included in EcoreTools with Eclipse Oxygen.

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A Guided Tour of Eclipse Modeling, Monday, October 23, 2017
Ecore Tools
Your utility belt for Ecore Modeling

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Productivity tools
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Ecore Design Checklist :
http://cedric.brun.io/eclipse/ecore-design-checklist-part1/
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Automatic reload of genmodel
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Better default in .genmodel generated by the wizard
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Package Dependencies
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CDO Configuration

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Documentation annotations
Documentation Table
Documentation layer in Entities Diagram

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a few Shortcuts
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Direct-Edit Syntax
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« Something » => change name of feature
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«:SomeType » => only change the eType
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«1» => only set cardinality to 1..x
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« * » => only set cardinality to x..*
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« /Something » => make the feature derived
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« = something » => set the default value literal
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[...]
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CTRL+H to Hide a shape
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CTRL+O to navigate within the diagram
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MAJ+DEL delete from diagram (vs DEL delete from model)

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Modeling
Generics
Parameters
EAnnotation

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Constraints
(*) would be nice to have tooled support for AQL constraints, it just did not happened yet

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Focused diagrams
Indirect GeneralizationWith Class Content
With inherited features
Add Related Elements in Diagram

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Generation settings & launch

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Navigate to Java
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Navigate to Java

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Icons preview

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Eclipse Views
EClass Information to inspect types of selection
References to inspect type relationships

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Reworked Dialogs
Generated with Extended Editing Framework 1.x
Using Sirius 5.0+ property views support

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visualizing Xcore models

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powered by Eclipse Sirius
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Sirius Best Practices
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Inspectable
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Extensible

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envisionned Roadmap
Ecore
Open Class
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Versionning, deprecation annotations
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ALE (Action Language for EMF)
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Contribution in EcoreTools (INRIA)
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Provides
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Assignements
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More control flow
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Multi-inheritance
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Runtime data
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Type inference

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Download
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the Eclipse Modeling Package, through the Marketplace
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Packaged in Obeo Designer Community Edition (EPL)
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https://www.obeodesigner.com/en/download