Difference between revisions of "Graphical Editing Framework"

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The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) project provides technology to realize rich graphical editors and views for the Eclipse Workbench. It bundles three components:

Draw2d (org.eclipse.draw2d) - A layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics on an SWT Canvas.
GEF (org.eclipse.gef) - An interactive MVC framework built on top of Draw2d, which fosters the implementation of rich graphical editors for the Eclipse Workbench.
Zest (org.eclipse.zest) - A visualization toolkit based on Draw2d, which enables implementation of graphical views for the Eclipse Workbench.

While the main GEF website contains the bulk of information regarding the GEF project, the type of information more appropriately hosted on a wiki is (or will be) found here, such as: FAQs, tutorials, requirements, discussions, etc.

Downloads & Update Sites

Downloads
Update-Sites (Releases, Milestones & RCs, Intergration & Maintenance Builds) (old update sites: ~~Releases~~, ~~Milestones~~, ~~Intergration Builds~~)

Documentation

New and Noteworthy: 3.6 (stable) , 3.7 (development)
GEF Project Contributor Guide
GEF Project Team Meetings

Draw2d/GEF

GEF and Draw2d Plug-in Developer Guide (Ecipse Help)
Draw2d/GEF Developer FAQ
Draw2d/GEF Troubleshooting Guide
Draw2d/GEF Tutorial ( Part 1 & Part 2) by Régis Lemaigre

Zest

External Documentation (Articles, Slides, Books)

Lars Vogel (2009): Eclipse Zest - Tutorial, article
Chris Aniszczyk, Randy Hudson (2007): Create an Eclipse-based application using the Graphical Editing Framework - How to get started with the GEF and other options for the graphically inclined Eclipse developer, IBM developerWorks article
Randy Hudson (2006): Graphical Editing Framework - Tutorial, EclipseCon presentation slides
William Moore, David Dean, Anna Gerber, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Philippe Vanderheyden (2004): Eclipse Development using the Graphical Editing Framework and the Eclipse Modeling Framework, IBM Redbook
Phil Zoio (2004): Building a database schema diagram editor, Eclipse Corner Article
By Bo Majewski (2004): A shape diagram editor, Eclipse Corner Article
Daniel Lee (2003): Display a UML Diagram using Draw2D, Eclipse Corner Article
Eric Bordeau (2003): Using Native Drag and Drop in GEF, Eclipse Corner Article

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-The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) allows developers to create a rich graphical editor from an existing application model. GEF consists of 2 plug-ins. The org.eclipse.draw2d plug-in provides a layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics. The developer can then take advantage of the many common operations provided in GEF and/or extend them for the specific domain. GEF employs an MVC (model-view-controller) architecture which enables simple changes to be applied to the model from the view.
+The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) project provides technology to realize rich graphical editors and views for the Eclipse Workbench. It bundles three components:
-While the main GEF [http://eclipse.org/gef website] contains the bulk of information regarding the project, the type of information more appropriately hosted on a wiki is (or will be) found here, such as: FAQs, tutorials, requirements, discussions, etc.
+* Draw2d (org.eclipse.draw2d) - A layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics on an SWT Canvas.
+* GEF (org.eclipse.gef) - An interactive MVC framework built on top of Draw2d, which fosters the implementation of rich graphical editors for the Eclipse Workbench.
+* [[GEF Zest Visualization | Zest]] (org.eclipse.zest) - A visualization toolkit based on Draw2d, which enables implementation of graphical views for the Eclipse Workbench.
+While the main GEF [http://eclipse.org/gef website] contains the bulk of information regarding the GEF project, the type of information more appropriately hosted on a wiki is (or will be) found here, such as: FAQs, tutorials, requirements, discussions, etc.
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 === Zest ===
-* [[GEF Zest Visualization | Zest Introduction]]
 * [[Tree_Views_for_Zest | Zest 2.0 Layout API]]
 * [[Graphviz DOT as a DSL for Zest]]

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