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GMF Notation: View CVS repo GMF Runtime: View CVS repo GMF Tooling: View Git Repo, GitHub

Documentation Index

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Tutorials

General

• Mindmap Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
• BPMN Diagram
• Flash (video) based GMF Tutorial of a Simple Telecom Network

External tutorials

• Additional Tutorial, tips & tricks

Specific tutorials

• Runtime Tutorials
• Introductory article on GMF at ONJava.com
• An org chart tutorial viewlet
• Model2Text using Xpand and QVT for Query
• Customize your GMF editor by customizing templates
• How to create and customize boundary items in Eclipse GMF

Online Help

• Runtime Programmer's Guide
• Runtime How-To Guide
• Runtime Examples
• Runtime API Reference
• Tooling API Reference
• Extension Points Reference

How-To's / Q&A

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• eclipse.modeling.gmf (current)
• eclipse.technology.gmf (archived)
• Tips and Code Snippets
• Recipes
• Model Migration
• Reconciler
• RCP Support
• Troubleshooting
• GMF Build Instructions

GMF Concepts

Articles about diagram editor concepts and how they are supported in GMF tooling (definition, mapping, generation):

• Nodes
• Links
• Labels

Information on OCL, constraints, audit, and metric features:

• GMF Constraints and Validation

Tooling Model Hints

Description of GMF models and usage hints.

• Graphical Definition Model
• Mapping Model
• Generator Model

Resources

Eclipse Corner Articles

• Introducing the GMF Runtime
• Integrating EMF and GMF Editors
• From Front End to Code - MDSD in Practice

Presentations

• EclipseCon 2006
  • Introduction to GMF slides
  • Creating your own Domain Specific Modeler using GMF slides

• ECOOP 2006 Developing a Domain-Specific Modeler with GMF slides tutorial (slides modified for OOPSLA 2006)

• EclipseWorld 2006 Building Better Graphical Editors with GMF slides

• Eclipse Summit Europe 2006 What's New in Modeling at Eclipse slides

• Callisto Webinar Using EMF & GMF

• EclipseCon 2007
  • GMF Best Practices Submission with the slides attached

• EclipseCon 2008
  • Introduction to the Graphical Modeling Framework (Network domain demo) Submission
  • GMF:Exemplary MDD Submission
  • Using GMF and M2M for Model-driven-development Submission

• EclipseCon 2009
  • GMF and QVTO: roads (finally) crossed Session

• EclipseCon 2010
  • GMF showcase slides

• EclipseCon 2011
  • GMF : Create you graphical DSL slides

• Eclipse Democamp Grenoble 2011
  • Leveraging Modeling Stack in your application: Bonita Open Solution Case Study slides