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EMF Parsley: a web application in a few steps

Introduction With EMF Parsley you can quickly build and easily maintain a web application. Let's see how. Indeed Parsley allows you to build both desktop and web applications from the same code (single-sourcing), leveraging on Eclipse RCP platform and using RAP for the web, but for the purpose of this article we will focus only on the web side. Setting up the environment First of all ensure you have a recent Eclipse IDE installed and running on a brand new workspace. If you downloaded the Eclipse Modeling Package then you already have EMF Parsley installed, otherwise you can install it [...]

By Vincenzo Caselli|2017-08-13T09:27:40+00:00August 10th, 2017|

How to install WindowBuilder

In order to install WindowBuilder on Eclipse let's click on Help -> Eclipse Marketplace..., type "windowbuilder" into "Find:" field and press Enter. Then press the Install button and follow the wizard until it asks to restart Eclipse.

By Vincenzo Caselli|2020-04-27T09:20:17+00:00December 8th, 2016|

Internet of Things @ Eclipse

Eclipse Foundation encourages the grow of Eclipse Working Groups, that are formed to facilitate collaboration between companies and organizations, to focus, promote and augment Eclipse technologies on a certain topic. In this article we'll speach about Eclipse M2M Working Group, that is a collaboration of companies and organizations focused on developing open source protocols, frameworks, and tools for M2M software development. The goal of the Eclipse M2M Working Group is to make it easy for software developers to create M2M applications that are based on open standards and open source technology. Here a list of the projects from this group, [...]

By Francesco|2013-08-22T17:07:50+00:00August 21st, 2013|

Eclipse e4: Kepler Tools

The new Eclipse 4.3 release, also known as Kepler, is going to be released and along with it will be available the new version of the Eclipse e4 Application Development Tools. For those who want to begin looking at the new cool features here is where to start: download Eclipse Kepler RC3 (package "for RCP/RAP Developers") from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php install e4 Tools for Kepler from http://download.vogella.com/kepler/e4tools And here are some of the new features Extracting a fragment from the Application Model As showed in the tutorial How to contribute to an e4 application modularity in e4 can be obtained with fragments [...]

By Vincenzo Caselli|2014-12-04T11:42:03+00:00May 11th, 2013|

First Eclipse 4 Training in Italy with Vogella

Last week I had the chance for a unique and amazing experience: being co-trainer, side-by-side with Lars Vogel, for the first Eclipse e4 Training in Italy! It has been a five days of intensive and engaging learning time, alternating slides presentation for showing the concepts to live-coding from-scratch examples. Further, after every presentation, the participants had the chance to practice the just learned concepts, ask, share doubts and approaching techniques. Since the very first moments it emerged how powerful is this new development platform; here are some among the main advantages, with respect to the previous 3.x way. Application model [...]

By Vincenzo Caselli|2014-12-04T11:47:56+00:00March 14th, 2013|

The JvmModelInferrer, the debugger and Xbase in Xtext 2.3

In previous posts, I had blogged about some experiments done with Xtext 2 wonderful mechanisms to access Java types and to reuse Xbase expressions; however, when generating code, I was using the "manual way". That is to say, I was not using the JvmModelInferrer mechanism; the mechanism of JvmModelInferrer allows to define a mapping from your DSL elements to Java elements. You'll then have for free a complete integration of Java into your DSL, and viceversa (yes, from Java you can jump directly to your DSL elements starting from generated classes, methods, etc.). And by the way, you'll also have [...]

By Lorenzo Bettini|2020-04-27T09:08:21+00:00May 22nd, 2012|

Automatic testing with Jubula

Eclipse Jubula is a new addition to the Eclipse universe. ItÃ”Ã‡Ã–s a functional UI testing tool that allows you to specify and run tests.Jubula consists of plug-ins for an IDE and a standalone RCP application. In this tutorial we will create a simple RCP java product and then we'll use Jubula testing tool to execute some automated tests. First we will create a minimal RCP application, using the Plug-in Project creation Eclipse Wizard. The next step will consist into setup the Jubula environment and the AUT Agent to link the application with jubula The final step will be create some [...]

By Admin|2020-04-27T08:42:17+00:00January 1st, 2012|

Eclipse GMF: a graphical editor for EMF models

Now we are going to see how to generate a complete graphical editor for the EMF model we created in preceding tutorials, Library.ecore. For this purpose, we need to work with another framework, Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF), currently included in a broader set of Eclipse Projects, Graphical Modeling Project (GMP). A s the official Wiki states, GMF Ã”Ã‡Â£provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEFÃ”Ã‡Ã˜, that is it acts like a bridge between EMF (that allows the model definition) and GEF (a lightweight graphical framework, based on MVC architecture), generating the complete [...]

By Admin|2020-04-27T08:44:39+00:00November 17th, 2011|

CDO – Connected Data Objects

Introduzione a CDO Questo framework, che è un componente del progetto EMF, permette la condivisione di un modello EMF. Se con Teneo quindi possiamo fare in modo che ciascun client possa accedere ad un database (realizzando un client/server a due livelli), con CDO abbiamo la possibilità che i vari client accedano ad un server che mette loro a disposizione la medesima istanza, condivisa, del modello EMF. In questo tutorial vedremo come: installare CDO creare un server CDO creare un client CDO Per una documentazione dettagliata su CDO potete consultare il seguente link http://www.eclipse.org/cdo/documentation/ Mentre qui potete scaricare le varie versioni [...]

By Vincenzo Caselli|2020-04-27T09:20:45+00:00September 23rd, 2011|

Eclipse EMF: how to create and persist a model

In this tutorial we will learn how to create and persist an EMF model. The tutorial is based on Eclipse Galileo, but the steps should be the same for older versions. Anyway here are the steps needed if you decide to start from scratch. Download Eclipse Galileo Download Eclipse Galileo 3.5M6 from the Eclipse.org download page, extract on your file-system and run eclipse.exe. Add EMF and Teneo support Go to Help -> Install New Software...; in the text field "Work with:" select "All Avaiable Sites". In the text just after (not labeled) enter "EMF" and wait for the results; you [...]

By Vincenzo Caselli|2020-04-27T08:47:05+00:00May 5th, 2011|