Part IIIReference

This part of the book provides reference information on the key components used in the domain-specific language (DSL) Toolkit. Here I introduce Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) as an underlying element of Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) and dedicate chapters to the GMF runtime and tooling components. This part also covers the Query/View Transformation (QVT) Operational Mapping Language and Xpand template language in chapters that are intended to be used throughout the development of the sample projects in Part II and later during your own DSL-based development.

Chapter 9. Graphical Editing Framework

The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) is a project with the top-level Eclipse Tools Project and, as with Eclipse Modeling ...

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