The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) (Steinberg et al., 2008), http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf, provides code generation facilities for building tools and applications based on structured data models. Most of the Eclipse projects that in some way deal with modeling are based on EMF since it simplifies the development of complex software applications with its modeling mechanisms. The model specification ( metamodel) can be described in XMI, XML Schema, UML, Rational Rose, or annotated Java. It is also possible to specify the metamodel programmatically using Xcore, which was implemented in Xtext. Typically, a metamodel is defined in the Ecore format, which is basically an implementation of a subset of UML ...
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