Re: [e4-dev] how to contribute to toolkit model ?

[Hallvard Trætteberg <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Paulin wrote:
> We want to attract developers from other technologies such as Flex and 
> .NET. These developers will understand XWT and XAML. If we tell them 
> they need to learn EMF to construct a UI, they are going to stick with 
> the tools they have.

I understand and partly agree. I'm trying to provide the same kind of 
model as XWT, a hierarchical representation of the UI that is fairly 
close to the UI structure and that can be scripted, bound to data, etc. 
Creating a UI should not require EMF skills, but if you want to extend 
the UI "language" you will have to understand (some of) EMF.

> None of this is meant to put down TM or EMF in general. I'd like to see 
> these technologies grow and become more popular.

We may end up agreeing that it's better to develop TM on it's own, if 
that's best for e4.

Hallvard