In 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 notable feature number two in EMF Forms 1.4.0, I pick the new...
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 notable feature number three in EMF Forms 1.4.0, I pick the new...
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 notable feature number four in EMF Forms 1.4.0, I pick the enhanced...
Read MoreIn this small blog post 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. With the 1.3.0 release, we introduced the IDE tooling for EMF...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that we have just released EMF Client Platform and EMF Forms 1.4.0! Both will be part of Eclipse Modeling Tools Luna SR1, but you can already find the new release on our download pages: Download EMF Client Platform Download EMF Forms EMF Client Platform is a framework to support the development of applications based on an EMF data model. EMF Forms is a...
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 MoreAfter defining a model, it is a common next step to define validation rules. Often there is a requirement to have attributes with a restricted length or attributes with values in a specific range. Furthermore, it can be the case, that there are multiple attributes with the same restriction in different places of the model. To solve such a requirement EMF offers a simple solution: EDataTypes with...
Read MoreWe are happy to announce that EMF Forms (and the parent project EMF Client Platform) joins the Eclipse Luna release train and will be available as part of the Eclipse Modeling Tools package. As we are new on board, I would like to introduce EMF Forms a bit, especially the new IDE tooling, which is introduced with the new 1.3.0 release. EMF Forms is a framework...
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 MoreIn my last blog post, I started to describe the framework EMF Forms in more detail and compared it to manual UI programming. To recap, EMF Forms is a framework for efficiently creating form-based user interfaces. Instead of programming form-based UIs manually, they can be described by a simple view model. This model is then interpreted by a customizable rendering component to display the actual...
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