1. EclipseCon 2011
Create your graphical DSL
Mariot Chauvin
Obeo, France
copyright 2011 Obeo

2. In a
Nutshell
● Create easily a diagram editor
● Reuse a well-tried runtime
● Generate your editor

3. showcase!

4. showcase!

5. Behind the
Scene

6. Featured
Runtime
● Bridge between EMF and GEF
● Diagramming capabilities
● Designed for extensibility

7. EMF and GEF
Bridge
● EMF model as MVC model
● Standardized diagram model
● EMF Transaction integration

8. Diagram
actions
● Alignement
● Arrange
● Zoom (Animated)
● Selection
● Ordering

9. Cool add-in
● Direct edit ● Connection handles
● Action bars ● Collapsible Compartements

10. Workbench
● Editor toolbar
integration
● Outline ● Properties

11. Designed for
Extensibility
● 27 extension points
● Tools, Layout, Behaviors redefinition
● Priorities to handle override

12. Generation
Framework
● Model driven approach
● Separation between domain and graphical
● GMF Runtime as target

13. The big
Map

14. Graphical definition
● Figures
● Nodes and edges
● Colors and layout

15. Tooling definition
● Menus
● Palette and tools
● Actions

16. Mapping definition
● Relationship between
● domain elements
● graphical elements
● tools
● Audits and Metrics
● Contstraints and Initialization

17. Generation customization
● Similar to ecore genmodel
● Naming policy
● Runtime options

18. Where do I find
Documentation ?
● Eclipse GMF wiki
● «EMP : a DSL Toolkit» book
● Newsgroup

19. Project
History
● 2005 – IBM Runtime contribution
● 2005 – Borland Tooling contribution
●
2011 - 20th release

20. Thanks
GMF newsgroup and mailling list
●
● http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/gmp/?project=gmf
● http://wiki.eclipse.org/GMF