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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:
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The [http://www.eclipse.org/gef/ Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)] provides Eclipse-integrated end-user tools in terms of a [http://www.graphviz.org Graphiz] authoring (DOT editor, DOT Graph view) and a word cloud rendering environment (Tag Cloud view), as well as framework components (Common, Geometry, FX, MVC, Graph, Layout, Zest, DOT, and Cloudio) to create rich graphical Java client applications, Eclipse-integrated or standalone.
  
* '''Draw2d''' (org.eclipse.draw2d) - A layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics on an SWT Canvas.
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The GEF-Legacy components [https://www.eclipse.org/gef/draw2d/index.php Draw2d 3.x], [https://www.eclipse.org/gef/gef_mvc/index.php GEF (MVC) 3.x], and [https://www.eclipse.org/gef/zest/index.php Zest 1.x] are still maintained but will not be developed further. As they are still an integral part of the Eclipse ecosystem we continue to provide service or minor releases if contributions are provided by the community but will not fix any issues that require to break its API.
* '''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.
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* '''[[GEF Zest Visualization | Zest]]''' (org.eclipse.zest) - A visualization toolkit based on Draw2d, which enables implementation of graphical views for the Eclipse Workbench.
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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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=== General Information for [https://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/#2_3_3_Adopters Adopters] and [https://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/#2_3_1_Committers Contributors/Committers] ===
 
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* [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.gef GEF@projects.eclipse.org ]
== Downloads & Update Sites ==
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* [https://github.com/eclipse/gef#eclipse-graphical-editing-framework-gef GEF@github.com]
* [http://www.eclipse.org/gef/downloads/ Downloads]
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* Update-Sites: [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/releases/ Releases], [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/milestones/ Milestones & RCs], [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/interim/ Intergration & Maintenance Builds] (old update sites: <strike>[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/releases/site-old.xml Releases]</strike>, <strike>[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/milestones/site-old.xml Milestones]</strike>, <strike>[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/integrations/site-old.xml Intergration Builds]</strike>)
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== Documentation ==
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* New and Noteworthy: [[GEF/New and Noteworthy/3.6 | 3.6 (stable) ]], [[GEF/New and Noteworthy/3.7 |3.7 (development)]]
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* [[GEF Contributor Guide | GEF Project Contributor Guide]]
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* [[GEF Team Meetings| GEF Project Team Meetings]]
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=== Draw2d/GEF ===
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* [http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?nav=/28 GEF and Draw2d Plug-in Developer Guide (Ecipse Help)]
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* [[GEF Developer FAQ | Draw2d/GEF Developer FAQ]]
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* [[GEF Troubleshooting Guide | Draw2d/GEF Troubleshooting Guide]]
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* Draw2d/GEF Tutorial ([[GEF Description | Part 1]] & [[GEF Description2 | Part 2]]) by Régis Lemaigre
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=== Zest ===
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* [[Tree_Views_for_Zest | Zest 2.0 Layout API]]
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* [[Graphviz DOT as a DSL for Zest]]
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== External Documentation (Articles, Slides, Books) ==
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* Lars Vogel (2009): [http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseZest/article.html Eclipse Zest - Tutorial], article
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* Chris Aniszczyk, Randy Hudson (2007): [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-eclipse-gef11 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
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* Randy Hudson (2006): [http://eclipsezilla.eclipsecon.org/php/attachment.php?bugid=52 Graphical Editing Framework - Tutorial], EclipseCon presentation slides
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* William Moore, David Dean, Anna Gerber, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Philippe Vanderheyden (2004): [http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246302.html?Open Eclipse Development using the Graphical Editing Framework and the Eclipse Modeling Framework], IBM Redbook
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* Phil Zoio (2004): [http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-editor/gef-schema-editor.html Building a database schema diagram editor], Eclipse Corner Article
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* By Bo Majewski (2004): [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-diagram-editor/shape.html A shape diagram editor], Eclipse Corner Article
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* Daniel Lee (2003): [http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-Draw2d/GEF-Draw2d.html Display a UML Diagram using Draw2D], Eclipse Corner Article
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* Eric Bordeau (2003): [http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-GEF-dnd/GEF-dnd.html Using Native Drag and Drop in GEF], Eclipse Corner Article
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Latest revision as of 09:54, 15 May 2017

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The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) provides Eclipse-integrated end-user tools in terms of a Graphiz authoring (DOT editor, DOT Graph view) and a word cloud rendering environment (Tag Cloud view), as well as framework components (Common, Geometry, FX, MVC, Graph, Layout, Zest, DOT, and Cloudio) to create rich graphical Java client applications, Eclipse-integrated or standalone.

The GEF-Legacy components Draw2d 3.x, GEF (MVC) 3.x, and Zest 1.x are still maintained but will not be developed further. As they are still an integral part of the Eclipse ecosystem we continue to provide service or minor releases if contributions are provided by the community but will not fix any issues that require to break its API.

General Information for Adopters and Contributors/Committers

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