With the increasing popularity of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), the need for quality tooling in the form of “language workbenches” and graphical editors will be critical to their success. The Eclipse Modeling Project (EMP) includes the necessary components for abstract and graphical syntax development, model transformation and code generation; that is, all you need for a DSL Toolkit in Eclipse. This presentation will illustrate the capabilities of the Eclipse Modeling Project to develop a DSL and associated generators for use in a model-driven software development (MDSD) scenario. Specifically, the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF), Model-to-Model Transformation (M2M:QVT OML) and Model-to-Text (M2T:Xpand) Transformation projects will be demonstrated in the context of a real-world DSL toolkit.
Total running time 51:40 minutes
Thanks to Adobe for contributing their Adobe Acrobat Connect product to host this webinar.
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It was a really nice talk. It would be nice if...
It was a really nice talk.
It would be nice if we can have a step by step demo (or tutorial) about that because it still remains a really abstract topic, so a demo starting from scratch will help people to get the sense of using QVT, OaW... with EMF
And I will also emphasize on the previous comment about the pre-requisites that may be needed because of the vast amount of technologies involved in this talk.
50 minutes is short for presenting such a large topic , we could maybe consider this one as an 'overview' of a series of webminars which may introduce every concept of the talk in details , so to get to the final results that Mr Gronback got. But once again, this was a really nice talk and we can warmly thank Mr Merckx and Mr Gronback, ( and Lynn of course:) ) , and every Eclipse committers.
First, I need to admit that I am somewhat of a...
First, I need to admit that I am somewhat of a newcomer to the world EMF and eclipse modeling in general. I have been involved with it for only a few months now. With that background in mind, this webcast simply wasn't for me. In general, the Eclipse Modeling Project is already a complex topic. In my opinion, in this case too much information was squished into a 52 minute presentation with overly complex examples.
I felt that to be able to understand much of the presentation as quickly as it was covered that I would have to already know almost as much as the presenter. And maybe this was the intended audience?
For me, I would like to see this same presentation broken into several webcasts, with much simpler examples (for example, SimplePO).Or maybe present the information at a higher level with fewer details? Also, maybe it would help to include some kind of "expected prerequisite knowledge" scale for the potential attendees.
Great suggestion on listing expected prerequisite...
Great suggestion on listing expected prerequisite knowledge. That's something I will collect from presenters going forward so people have a better idea of the technical level.
There definitely was a lot of content to get through. I know modeling's a very popular topic so we'll continue to work with the project team to see if we can provide other resources, such as shorter demos.
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