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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.
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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.
  
While the main GEF [http://eclipse.org/gef website]
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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.
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.
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== Downloads ==
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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] ===
* [http://www.eclipse.org/gef/downloads/ Downloads]
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* [https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.gef GEF@projects.eclipse.org ]
* Learn GEF through Template for more Look GEF Developer FAQ-->Sample GEF As a Template for Eclipse 3.4.Xv
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* [https://github.com/eclipse/gef#eclipse-graphical-editing-framework-gef GEF@github.com]
 
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== Update Sites ==
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The GEF update sites have moved.
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* [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/releases/ Releases]
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* [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/milestones/ Milestones & RCs]
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* [http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/interim/ Intergration & Maintenance Builds]
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The old sites are still available here:
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* <strike>[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/releases/site-old.xml Releases]</strike>
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* <strike>[http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/milestones/site-old.xml Milestones]</strike>
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* <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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* [[GEF New and Noteworthy | New and Noteworthy]]
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* [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-gef/ GEF Tutorial]
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* [[GEF Articles]]
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* [[GEF Developer FAQ]]
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* [[GEF Troubleshooting Guide]]
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* [[GEF Description]] and [[GEF Description2]]
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* [http://eclipse.org/gef GEF Website]
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* [http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseZest/article.html Zest Tutorial by Lars Vogel]
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* [[GEF Contributor Guide]]
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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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