This course assumes that the participants:

• Know Java
• Know how to use Eclipse as a Java development tool
• Have some experience writing Eclipse plug ins
  

Overview

• Model Driven Architecture
• Meta Modeling
• Meta Object Facility (MOF)
• Eclipse
• EMF

A first CASE study

Introduction to the case study

• A music library
• The UML Model
• The goals for the application

A first look at a model

• Creating a model using ecore
• Defining the types
• Defining the attributes
• Defining the associations

Creating an generator model

• Purpose of the generator model
• Creating the generator model
• Optimization of the generator model

Using the EMF generator

• Generating an application
• What is generated?
• The generated model implementation
• The generated EMF.edit implementation
• The generated EMF.editor implementation

Running the application

• How to run the application
• How to use the application
• What is missing?

Defining EMF Models

Overview

• The role of the EMF models
• The language for EMF models
• Limitations of ecore

The EMF Meta model

• What is a meta model?
• emof

Using Java Interfaces

• Defining a model based on java interfaces
• The @model attribute
• Extensions to the @model
• The @generated attribute
• Other java annotations
• Creating ecore models from annotated java

Using Rational Rose

• Why Rational Rose?
• The stereotypes
• Creating ecore models from mdl files

Using XML Schema

• XML Schema mappings
• Limitations in mapping
• Creating an XML schema
• From XSD to ecore
  

Using ecore

• The ecore editor
• A quick look at XMI and the XML foundations
• Limitations of ecore

Running the Default Generator

Overview

EMF model generator patterns

• Generating the model
• A class becomes...
• Generated code and inheritance
• An enumeration becomes...
• An attribute becomes...
• A reference becomes...
• An operation becomes...
• Factories
• Packages
• Switch classes
• Adapter factories

EMF edit generator patterns

• Commands
• Label providers
• Factories

EMF editor generator pattern

• Tree editor
• Table tree editor
• Table editor
• Action bar contributor
• Wizards

Java Emitter Templates

Overview

• Purpose of JET
• A simple example

JET Concepts

• The JET model
• JET directives
• Scriptlets
• Expressions

Case Study

Extending the Generated code

• Overview
  • Extending options
  • Changing JET?
  • Changing the generated code?
  • Heuristics
  • Patterns
• Extending the model
• Extending the edit code
• Extending the editor

Advanced EMF

• Chaining meta models
• Using emof
• Chaining generators