Raising the Level of Abstraction in the Development of GMF-based Graphical Model Editors

Dimitrios S. Kolovos; Louis M. Rose; Richard F. Paige; Fiona A. C. Polack

Raising the Level of Abstraction in the Development of GMF-based Graphical Model Editors

Dimitrios S. Kolovos, Louis M. Rose, Richard F. Paige, Fiona A. C. Polack

Computer Science

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Abstract

The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides substantial infrastructure and tooling for developing diagram-based editors for modelling languages atop the Eclipse platform. It is widely accepted that implementing a visual editor using the built-in GMF facilities is a particularly complex and error-prone task and requires a steep learning curve. We present an approach that raises the level of abstraction at which a visual editor is specified. The approach uses annotations at the metamodel level. Annotations are used for producing the required low-level intermediate GMF models necessary, for generating an editor via model-to-model transformations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2009 ICSE WORKSHOP ON MODELING IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (MISE)
Place of Publication	NEW YORK
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	13-19
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-3722-1
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering held at the IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering - Vancouver Duration: 17 May 2006 → 18 May 2009

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Conference	Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering held at the IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
City	Vancouver
Period	17/05/06 → 18/05/09

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Raising the Level of Abstraction in the Development of GMF-based Graphical Model Editors

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