Over two years ago, we started working on EMF Forms to ease the development of form-based UIs. During this time, it has become one of the most active and well-received projects in the Eclipse community. Instead of manually coding UIs, the framework allows to describe forms via a simple view model, which is interpreted by a rendering components. This approach worked particularly well, besides saving a...
Read MoreEMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms to edit your data based on an EMF model. We have recently released EMF Forms 1.5.0. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. Besides saving a lot of effort when comparing to manual UI development, EMF Forms provides an additional benefit for free: UI technology independance. EMF Forms uses a technology independent language...
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 MoreIn short: If you are upgrading from 1.4.x or lower to 1.5.x, and you have existing view models, please use the 1.5.1 service release provided on our download page. Luna SR2 contains only 1.5.0. Please also follow our migration guide. Longer story: We have recently released EMF Forms 1.5.0. In this release, the view model has been updated. More precisely, the format in which tables are defined has...
Read MoreEclipseCon is just around the corner, starting on Monday with the tutorials. EMF Forms will be presented at different events during the conference. If you would like to know when and where, read on: On Monday, we will present the EMF Tutorial which also briefly introduces EMF Forms: Harbour A - March 9 - 13:00 to 16:00 On Tuesday, we will present EMF Forms in the Poster Session, join...
Read MoreEMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms in order to edit your data, based on an EMF model. To get started with EMF Forms please refer to our tutorial. We have recently released EMF Forms 1.5.0, which will also ship with the Eclipse Luna SR2 Modeling Tools. In this blog post, we describe another new feature of the EMF Forms Tooling, which support...
Read MoreEMF Forms makes it really simple to create forms to edit your data. To get started please refer to our tutorial. We have recently released EMF Forms 1.5.0, which will also ship with the Eclipse Luna SR2 Modeling Tools. For this release we put a focus on improved developer tooling. This involves the View Model Editor and Error Reporting in the run-time. This blog post will describe...
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 MoreI am happy to present the selected talks for the Modeling Symposium for EclipseCon North America 2015. It is scheduled for the second day of the conference, i.e., Tuesday, March 10th, 5pm. The symposium aims to provide a forum for community members to present a brief overview of their work. We offer four 10-minute lightning slots to facilitate a broad range of topics. The primary...
Read MoreIn this blog series, I describe the five most notable new features of EMF Forms 1.4.0. EMF Forms is a framework to efficiently develop form-based UIs based on a given data model. Please refer to this tutorial for an introduction to EMF Forms and to this post for an overview of the series. As you might have noticed, it took me quite a while to post...
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