Bug 386827

Summary:	GMF-Tooling to generate web diagrams from the same input artifacts
Product:	[Modeling] GMF-Tooling (ARCHIVED)	Reporter:	Michael Golubev <borlander>
Component:	Generation / Templates	Assignee:	Michael Golubev <borlander>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4	CC:	borlander, g.hillairet
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	---	Flags:	borlander: kepler-
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	386821

Description Michael Golubev

2012-08-08 08:13:38 EDT

There are plenty of open source libraries that allows web diagramming, and it is clear that the same PIM models (GMFGraph, GMFMap, and to some extent GMF-Tooling) may be used as an input for transformation/codegen targeting one of those libraries. 

This Bugzilla is to discuss the different implementation choices in this area. The most important of them seems to be: 
- should we use RAP? It was very slow a year ago, but reported to be better now. 
- should we use SVG or HTML5 Canvas as an underlying graphical engine 
- should the generation target javascript or, GWT java code, or e.g, Flash (see http://www.slideshare.net/architexa/conquering-gef-part2-building-graphical-webapps-with-eclipse)
- what we can reuse from CDO Dawn
- should we wait for http://gefgwt.org/ project planned for release early this autumn

Comment 1 Michael Golubev

2012-09-26 05:42:01 EDT

After more discussions about the feasibility we decided to defer this for Kepler.

Comment 2 Michael Golubev

2012-09-26 05:43:32 EDT

This is to be reconsidered if/when GEF/GWT project (http://gefgwt.org) will publish its port for GEF framework for the web platform.

Comment 3 Guillaume Hillairet

2012-10-03 07:16:47 EDT

Just a note on web diagramming, the eugenia team has recently presented a web based tool for to generate editors, see presentation [1] and demo [2].

[1] http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~louis/eugenialive.pdf
[2] http://eugenialive.herokuapp.com/