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This tutorial uses the GMF [http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.gmf.doc/tutorials/tooling/index.html|mindmap] tutorial.  
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This tutorial describes how the generated GMF editor can be adapted to operate on a relational database. Both the diagram data and the model data will be stored in the same relational database.
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From the [http://www.eclipse.org/gmf GMF] website:
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The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF. The project aims to provide these components, in addition to exemplary tools for select domain models which illustrate its capabilities.
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This tutorial shows you how to adapt the plugins from the GMF [http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.gmf.doc/tutorials/tooling/index.html mindmap] tutorial to operate on a relational database using hibernate. The chosen approach is to make very small changes to the generated code and is not necessarily focused on an elegant or optimal solution.
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The result of this tutorial will be a displayed as a menu option in Eclipse which directly opens the editor on a relational database.
  
 
For additional information (next to this tutorial), see the description provided in this [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260940 bugzilla].
 
For additional information (next to this tutorial), see the description provided in this [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260940 bugzilla].

Revision as of 05:54, 3 March 2010

Contents

This tutorial describes how the generated GMF editor can be adapted to operate on a relational database. Both the diagram data and the model data will be stored in the same relational database.

From the GMF website:

The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) provides a generative component and runtime infrastructure for developing graphical editors based on EMF and GEF. The project aims to provide these components, in addition to exemplary tools for select domain models which illustrate its capabilities.

This tutorial shows you how to adapt the plugins from the GMF mindmap tutorial to operate on a relational database using hibernate. The chosen approach is to make very small changes to the generated code and is not necessarily focused on an elegant or optimal solution.

The result of this tutorial will be a displayed as a menu option in Eclipse which directly opens the editor on a relational database.

For additional information (next to this tutorial), see the description provided in this bugzilla.

Initial Setup

This tutorial assumes that you have a running Eclipse with EMF and Teneo installed. In addition the Teneo dependencies (incl. hsqldb and mysql drivers) should be installed. See the Download & Install page for more information.

The tutorial uses hsqldb but it can easily be changed to use mysql or another database. For other databases than hsqldb and mysql you need to take make sure that the jdbc driver is in the classpath of the org.eclipse.gmf.examples.edit project.

For mysql and other non-in-memory databases you have to create the database up-front (so not the tables inside the database but just the database itself). For this tutorial the database name should be: library.

Also GMF needs to be installed.

The GMF tutorial makes use of another set of example projects. These projects can be found in the gmf folder of the examples folder in cvs:

  • dev.eclipse.org
  • /cvsroot/modeling
  • org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.teneo/examples/gmf

There are 3 projects:

  • org.eclipse.gmf.examples.edit
  • org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap
  • org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram

Download all three projects into your workspace.

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