Bug 418007

Summary:	[plan] Tools to assist users with the switching custom GMF-T templates to Xtend2
Product:	[Modeling] GMF-Tooling (ARCHIVED)	Reporter:	Michael Golubev <borlander>
Component:	Generation / Templates	Assignee:	Michael Golubev <borlander>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	borlander, sbouchet
Version:	3.2	Keywords:	plan
Target Milestone:	3.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:	Extensibility

Description Michael Golubev

2013-09-25 07:12:31 EDT

Switching from the old xpand templates to the new Xtend2 templates (@see bugzilla #418006) will require some work from users who used xpand ASPECT's to modify the default GMFT templates in the past.

Our own migration experience shows that 100% automated migration is nearly impossible. 

The most practical way we have found was to run the set of pattern-based search/replaces and then fix the relatively small amount of the compilation problems. 

So before declaring the xpand language deprecated, GMF T will at least publish 

- guidelines on migration of GMFT /aspects. 
- some tools that assist user with migration, even if it still will require some post processing.