Eclipse Presentation Modeling Framework (PMF) by Jim van Dam. Eclipse DemoCamp December 2009

1. Presentation Modeling Framework
Presentation Modeling Framework
What PMF can do for you
and what you can do for PMF
Jim van Dam
(PMF Committer)
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

2. Presentation Modeling Framework
Agenda
• What is PMF and why?
• PMF focus
• Demo
• Toolsets and Target Platforms
• Roadmap
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

3. Presentation Modeling Framework
What is PMF?
• Eclipse Project for a Presentation Modeling Framework
• MDA solution for UI
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

4. Presentation Modeling Framework
What is PMF?
• Make development of UI’s easier
 More productive
 Separate roles in UI development to enable specialization
 Integrate UI development with other Eclipse modeling stack
• Three separate steps:
1.Functional
2.Technical representation
3.Layout
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

5. Presentation Modeling Framework
Why PMF?
• UI development is hard and takes a lot of time
• UI Technology is changing quickly
• Lack of easy to use tools to do UI at higher abstraction
• Complete the tool-chain in Modeling for all layers
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

6. Presentation Modeling Framework
Platform Independent Model (PIM) focus
• References to
 domain model
 services
 constraints
• Intent of the UI
• Multiple representations
 Past: Swing, ASP.Net
 Future: e4, XWT, SWT/JFace,
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

7. Presentation Modeling Framework
Contributors and Underlying Technology
• Contributors
 Olivier Moïses
 Yves Yang
 Thomas Guiu
 Jim van Dam
• Technology
 RCP
 EMF
 M2M and M2T (OAW)
 RDBMS repository
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

8. Presentation Modeling Framework
PIM focus: the intent
• Dialogue
 ContentForm, CollectionDialogue, CompoundDialogue, etc…
• Process
 Automated, Interactive
• Navigation between contexts
• Presentation patterns
 Master-detail, Finder, Selector, ChoiceInput, etc…,
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

9. Presentation Modeling Framework
You recognize what is near to your heart…
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

10. Presentation Modeling Framework
Live Demo: dynamic behavior
• Service Calls
• Constraints
 Validation
 Conditional flow and display
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

11. Presentation Modeling Framework
Live Demo: dynamic behavior
• Live UI Model
• M2M
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

12. Presentation Modeling Framework
PMF Toolsets
• Tree-editors using wizards and D&D
• Textual editor using xText (Mod4J)
• Transformation and codegeneration
• Targeting e4/live model (XWT/Wazaabi), JFace and JSF
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

13. Presentation Modeling Framework
PIM level textual model
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

14. Presentation Modeling Framework
Roadmap
First phase
1. PIM level model
2. Editors
3. Transformation to UI (code and declarative)
4. Runtime model
Second phase
1. Integrate into EMF chain
2. Examples catalog
3. Expand reference implementations
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

15. Presentation Modeling Framework
Questions
For you
1. What would you like PMF to provide?
2. What examples would you like to see?
For us?
…
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009

16. Presentation Modeling Framework
Ask later
• jim.van.dam@hipes.nl
• yves.yang@soyatec.com
• olivier@wazaabi.org
• http://www.eclipse.org/pmf/
• news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.modeling
© 2009 by Jim van Dam, Eclipse DemoCamp Nieuwegein 2009