Rapidly Implementing EMF Applications with EMF Components

Abstract

Most Eclipse projects which deal with modeling data are based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) which provides code generation facilities for building tools and applications based on structured data models. However, from the user interface point of view, the development of applications based on EMF could be made simpler with more code reuse. For this reason, we propose EMF Components, a lightweight framework that allows easy and quick development of applications based on EMF. Besides providing a set of reusable components like trees, tables and detail forms that manage the model with the introspective EMF capabilities, EMF Components also comes with a DSL to make the configuration and customization of all the components much faster. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.