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Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)

Tutorial number: 34

What it is and how you can use it in your applications.

This tutorial provides an in-depth look at developing with EMF, first highlighting the highest value features of the framework, which every EMF developer should know about, and then delving into the darker corners to expose some of its lesser known capabilities. It also features some of the new and surprising ways in which people have used and reused components of EMF to solve their problems. Concrete examples and demos will motivate the use of EMF and show how to:

• Generate a model from UML, XML Schema, or a set of Java interfaces, with just a few mouse clicks.
• Generate efficient Java code.
• Generate a sample editor that integrates into Eclipse or runs as a Rich Client Platform application.
• Use adapters to respond to model changes and extend behavior.
• Add constraints to model definitions and validate instance models against them.
• Record the changes made to objects
• Customize code generation to control what elements appear in the model interface, or even to remove the reflective EMF API altogether.

The last part of the tutorial describes the motivation behind the Service Data Objects specification, its API and the challenges that architects and developers can overcome by adopting SDO.

Intermediate: Participants should be familiar with the object-oriented paradigm. Being fluent in one OO language, such as Java, will be useful.