emf facet eclipsecon 2011 audition

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EMF FacetA Non-Intrusive Tooling to Extend Metamodels

Frédéric Madiot, Mia-Software

Grégoire Dupé, Mia-Software



Why to extend ?



Add new attributes



Add new operations



Add new links



Add new subtypes



Add non-semantic properties

Icon dependingon the category

Icon

Label color depending on the number of books



Extensibility limitations

You can’t always change

the metamodel




Existing Instances can’t change their type




You can’t dynamically create/load/unload extensions

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EMF Facet project

An non-intrusive metamodel extension tooling

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/facet/

Initial contribution from MoDisco

FacetMetamodel extensibility

CustomizationGeneric additional properties

QueryComputable values




What can you do with EMF Facet ?



Example: UML extension for SysML



Example: UML extension for SysML

Additionalrelation



Example: Java extension for JPA



Example: Java extension for JPA

Additionalattribute



Example: Java extension for JUnit

Additionalattributes

Color calculateddynamically



Thank you !

Eclipse projects

http://www.eclipse.org/MoDisco/


Company

http://www.mia-software.com/

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Blog

http://fmadiot.blogspot.com/

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http://www.sodifrance.fr/

http://fmadiot.blogspot.com/

emf facet eclipsecon 2011 audition

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new attributes

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