Revision as of 15:52, 22 January 2009

Welcome

Welcome to the M2T-JET FAQ. This is a work in progress. If you have question you'd like answered by the FAQ, please start by posting the the M2T newsgroup eclipse.modeling.m2t

General

• JET FAQ What learning resources are available for JET?

Best Practices

• JET FAQ Should I write my JET code generator directly against UML2?
• M2T-JET-FAQ/Are there equivalents to the MVC pattern for JET transformations?

Whitespace Handling

• JET FAQ What are the JET whitespace handling rules?
• JET FAQ How do I get new lines in the right place when using iterate with delimiter?

Input Models

• JET FAQ What kind of input model can JET handle?
• JET FAQ Can JET handle UML models as input?

Running JET

• JET FAQ How do I run a JET transformation from Java?
• JET FAQ How do I get a console when running JET from Java?
• JET FAQ How do I resolve a Could not load JET template loader error?
• JET FAQ What does "Error: Feature 'version' not found." mean?
• JET FAQ How do I run an individual JET template and get a string back?
• JET FAQ Why do I get errors stating variable 'org.eclipse.jet.resource.project.name' is undefined?
• JET FAQ What does "Error: Invalid Java source folder:" mean?
• JET FAQ How do I test for the type/EClass of an element in XPath?

JET Extension Points

• JET FAQ How do I create custom XPath Function?
• JET FAQ How do I create custom tag?
• JET FAQ Why my custom container tag does not process its body content ?
• JET FAQ Why do I have an 'Error: Unknown function name' with my custom XPath Function ?

User Specific Code

• JET FAQ How do I create user specific code regions?
• JET FAQ What is JMerge?
• JET FAQ How do I use JMerge to manage user specific code?
• JET FAQ How does JMerge work?
• JET FAQ How do I write custom JMerge rules?

JET and Headless builds

• JET FAQ How to I compile JET templates in a headless build