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25 Feb 2021

The EMF.cloud Model Server

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Do you want to build a web-based tool based on a domain-specific data model? Do you need to connect client-side editors or cloud-based services to an instance of your data model and enable command-based modification, change propagation and undo/redo? In this article, we introduce the EMF.cloud model server, which fulfills exactly these requirements. Domain-specific tools or modeling tools usually operate on structured data, e.g. from within...

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17 Feb 2021

The workflow diagram example for Eclipse GLSP

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Do you want to see Eclipse GLSP, a framework for web-based diagram editors in action? In this article, we present a full-fledged example of a diagram editor implemented with GLSP that is available open source and on all supported platforms including VS Code, Eclipse Theia, Eclipse desktop and plain websites. You can even try the example in an online demonstration. Eclipse GSLP is an open source...

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10 Feb 2021

Web-based diagram editor features in Eclipse GLSP

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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The article provides an overview of the most important diagram editor features of Eclipse GLSP. The Eclipse Graphical Language Server Platform is a framework for efficiently implementing web-based diagram editors, e.g. for VS Code, Eclipse Theia or in any web application. In this article, we provide a quick overview of the user-visible features that GLSP enables. We explicitly skip details as well as features that...

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03 Feb 2021

How to build a tree editor in Eclipse Theia

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Are you interested in creating an editor displaying data as a tree structure with a detail form in Eclipse Theia, such as the screenshot shown below? In this article we introduce the tree editor framework for Eclipse Theia, which supports exactly that. The framework provided by the EMF.cloud project provides all the basic requirements out-of-the-box so you only need to implement the domain-specific part, e.g....

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27 Jan 2021

GLSP: Diagrams in VS Code, Theia, Eclipse and plain HTML

by Jonas Helming and Maximilian Koegel
in Planet Eclipse
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Eclipse GLSP is a framework to build diagram editors based on web technologies. These diagram editors can be embedded into any web page, but also into web-based IDEs such as VS Code or Eclipse Theia. By using a browser widget, the diagram editors can even be used in desktop tools such as the Eclipse IDE. To ease the integration of diagram editors built with Eclipse GLSP,...

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