EMF Forms makes it easy to create forms that are capable of editing your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we would like to outline a new feature in the 1.18.0 release: The improved label layouting. In release 1.18.0, we have added three new style options to control labels, i.e.: defining a...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that together with Oxygen, we have released EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.13.0! The number “13” should actually mean bad luck, however, 1.13.0 is the 14th release (starting with 1.0.0), so we are not superstitious here :-) We want to thank our continuously active team of 14 contributors (35 contributors over all) for completing on 43 bug reports and feature...
Read MoreWith Mars.2, we released EMF Forms 1.8.0. EMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms which edit your data based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. In this post, we wish to outline one of the new features of release 1.8.0: A factory API to efficiently create tables and TreeViewers based on a given EMF...
Read MoreWith Mars.2, we release EMF Forms 1.8.0. EMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms that edit your data, based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our getting started tutorial. In this post, we want to outline one of the new features: a new version of the Ecore editor based on EMF Forms. We will also have...
Read MoreEugen was honored with the Top Committed Award at EclipseCon North America. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Eugen for his great contributions over the years - especially to EMF Forms and its parent project EMF Client Platform! Eugen recently became the father of a newborn child and therefore could not come to EclipseCon to receive his award, so we had to proxy...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that we have just released EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.5.0! EMF Forms is a framework focused on the creation of form-based UIs. EMF Client Platform is a framework to support the development of applications based on an EMF data model. EMF Forms and EMF Client Platform 1.5.0 are part of Eclipse Modeling Tools and will ship with Luna SR2, but you can already find...
Read MoreEMF Forms is a component of the EMF Client Platform project that provides a form-based User Interface to display and edit your data, a.k.a. the entities of your application. The UI is rendered based on a view model at runtime and provides an out-of-the-box experience while being highly customizable. If you are not familiar with EMF Forms yet, please read this tutorial. We have just updated the documentation with more...
Read MoreEclipse is obviously known for its great Java tooling, but the real power of Eclipse comes from the thousands of plug-ins that integrate seamlessly. No project exemplifies this more than the Eclipse Modelling Project. As we get closer to the Eclipse Luna release, I'm counting down 10 new features that I'm most excited about. On Friday we used Eclipse Sirius to create a model for...
Read MoreManual development of user interfaces for Business application has several drawbacks. Visible components such as forms or reports are typically subject to constant change, based on user feedback. Additionally there are often many forms developed in parallel, which should all comply to a uniform look and feel. Typical UI layout technologies are powerful, but also complex to use, as they have to support any kind...
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