1. EclipseCon 2011
Sexy Properties, Wizards and Views
Mariot Chauvin
Obeo, France
copyright 2011 Obeo

2. In a
Nutshell
● Modelize your UI
● Generate the code
● Integrate and extend

3. Before
● Flat properties
● No wizards
● No forms

4. in action!
● Live validation in text widget
● Table and and other user-friendly widgets
● Help for each model element

5. in action!
● Tabs
● Undo management

6. in action!

7. Behind the
Scene

8. Three
Steps process
● Initialize
1 Create a target source folder
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● Add runtime as dependency

9. The big
Map

10. Three
Steps process
● Customize
2
● Generate

11. Three
Steps process
● Integrate into plugin.xml
3 ● Integrate into java code

12. Inside the
Machinery

13. Minimal
Runtime
● Use EMF Edit Adapter Factories
● Compatible with EMF Transaction
● Compatible with EMF Validation

14. Usage of
Templates
● Great tooling with Acceleo
● Customize generation
● Create your own widget

15. Automated
Tests
● SWTBot tests for each widget
● More than 170 SWTBot tests

16. What's
new ?
● 0.9 release
● 30% less generated code
● One click generation

17. What's
cooking ?
● EMF.Edit 2.0
● New widgets
● Runtime mode

18. Project
recognition
● Most innovative project finalist
● Daily active newsgroup
● About 10 downloads each day

19. Try it!
● In Helios
● In Indigo
● On Marketplace

20. Thanks
EMF Technologies newsgroup and mailling list
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● http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/?project=eef
● http://wiki.eclipse.org/EEF