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

[yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Paul,

Good summary.

yves
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:37 AM, <yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> As I've argued before, an important strength of an EMF-based
>>> representation is how well UI model instances can be managed by
>>> existing
>>> (and future) Eclipse tools. (EMF is almost becoming a native Eclipse
>>> object model, now.)
>>>
>> I suppose you have a car, by which you can go anywhere (on land of
>> course). Can you use it as a boat in ocean ?
>
> Just a note that I wouldn't get distracted by this line of discussion.
>  TM is a DSL backed by EMF.  XWT is a DSL backed by XML at the moment.
>  But as Yves mentioned XWT is model based (compared to XSWT).
>
> That means XWT can be backed by EMF just as easily (EMF is in the
> business of instantiating models, and I doubt that XWT contains a
> model that can't be represented in EMF).
>
> As McQ said, e4 needs to both include and enable declarative
> technology.  The Modeled Workbench should be able to instantiate
> contributed parts that contain declarative UIs.  I think there is
> still a lot of work  in this area to find the correct, flexible plugin
> mechanism and usecases that show tooling supporting the development
> workflow.
>
> PW
>
> --
> Paul Webster
> Hi floor.  Make me a sammich! - GIR
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