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Graphical Modeling Framework 2.2 New and Noteworthy items

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== Previous Release N&N Pages ==
[[GMF 2.1 New and Noteworthy]] - Released: June 12, 2008

[[GMF 2.0 New and Noteworthy]] - Released: June 28, 2007

[http://www.eclipse.org/gmf/new/gmf-new-1.0.php GMF 1.0 New and Noteworthy] - Released: June 30, 2006

== 2.2 M1 ==

== 2.2 M3 ==

== 2.2 M3 ==
=== Custom Parsers ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/244419 Bugzilla 244419]


=== Custom Actions ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/174961 Bugzilla 174961]


=== Custom Preferences and Preference pages ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/250772 Bugzilla 250772] Custom Preferences
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/247311 Bugzilla 247311] Boilerplate code for custom Preference Pages

Besides, not all the preference pages are generated now, see [http://bugs.eclipse.org/247542 Bugzilla 247542]


=== Ant Integration ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/251588 Bugzilla 251588]


=== Template enhancements ===
DIAGRAM_PREFERENCES_HINT access ([http://bugs.eclipse.org/250767 Bugzilla 250767])

Single template for asserts ([http://bugs.eclipse.org/249301 Bugzilla 249301])

== 2.2 M4 ==
=== Improved merge for plugin.xml ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/254532 Bugzilla 254532]

=== Removal of deprecated code ===
There were few classes that were marked as <code>@deprecated</code> and were not in use in 2.1 release. Only couple of them were ''almost'' API (they resided in a public package, but we never documented their use), namely <code>org.eclipse.gmf.gmfgraph.util.FigureQualifiedNameSwitch</code> and its subclasses. Few internal classes from <code>org.eclipse.gmf.internal.bridge.naming.gen</code> package were removed as well (<code>GenModelNamingMediator</code> interface, its implementations and related classes)

=== M2M (QVTO) transformations ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/259583 Bugzilla 259583] Both primary (gmfmap to gmfgen) or auxilary (in-place gmfgen modification) transformations are supported.

=== All GMF templates were migrated to QVTO-based Xpand ===
Xpand template engine was modified to use QVTO as query language (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=243154, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=243156). All the existing GMF templates were migrated to new query language. You can find description of automated migration process here: [[GMF Xpand Migration howto]]

== 2.2 M5 ==

== 2.2 M6 ==
=== Escape characters are supported in QVTO-based ===
QVTO escape characters are supported in both .xtp and .qvto (a part of QVTO standard) files from now - see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=242880 for the details. Migration tool was updated to produce escape characters then necessary.

=== ViewFactories are history ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/257119 Bugzilla 257119]

=== Generated palette customization ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/236869 Bugzilla 236869] Provide id for ToolEntry to allow palette customization

=== Legacy xpand templates were moved to separate plug-in ===
All legacy GMF 2.1.3 templates were moved to newly created org.eclipse.gmf.templates.legacy plug-in. This plug-in is necessary for the migration action execution. Legacy templates will be automatically loaded from this plug-in.

=== Migrate to new QVTO-based xpand action was moved to project menu ===
"Migrate to new QVTO-based xpand" was moved from project popup menu to main "Project" menu. This action is available only if project with the legacy "org.eclipse.gmf.xpand.oawBuilder" builder is selected:
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[[Image:MigrateToNewXpand.png]]

=== New GMFGen URI ===
As one can tell from this wiki page, there were some changes in the GMFGen model since 2.1 release, hence model's nsURI was changed to reflect revision year and now is ''<nowiki>http://www.eclipse.org/gmf/2009/GenModel</nowiki>''

Migraion is available as usual (action available from context menu only for old model files). When old model file is read, custom resource handler tries to bring the model up-to-date, going through a sequence of transformation (1.0->2.0, then 2.0->2.1 and finally 2.1-2.2). This means if one got a gmfgen file from the GMF 1.0 release, any read attempt, e.g. "Open editor" action, would show file contents migrated to present GMFGen metamodel state.

Note, if you have GMFGen models from M2-M5 of GMF 2.2, neither automatic migration will work, nor reconcile of GMFMap-to-GMFGen transformation result (with errors like "no 'parser' feature found in the metamodel"). The easiest way to deal with the issue is to open model file as plain text and update nsURI of the GMFGen model to reflect actual year (2008 -> 2009). With the change, re-open the file using GMFGen editor.

=== UTF-8 template encoding ===
[http://bugs.eclipse.org/191653 Bugzilla 191653] Char encoding for xpand templates should be UTF-8.
UTF16 LE/BE are supported as well. Respects BOM. Without BOM, tries to guess encoding, by far picking between old ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. New templates get created in UTF-8.

=== Clean code ===
If diagram is in pixel map mode, we no longer generate getDPtoLP() invocations as there's no reason to pipe pixel values through identity MapMode.