[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: Purpose of Type Link Model Facet?

[Dmitry Stadnik <5d5@xxxxxxx>]

GMF should know link source and link target so it could create it; if 
source is not specified it assumes that containing class is a source but 
there is no way to deduce link target.

Gaff wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently set a canvas link from a node so that when there's a double 
> click on the node a second canvas opens up, as described in the thread:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.modeling.gmf/msg02691.html
> (thanks to Alex Shatalin)
>
> When I was building the gmfgen model, there was one error that appeared 
> that I needed to fix, I had to set the Target Meta Feature of the Type 
> Link Model Facet.
>
> I had a guess at it and it all seems to be working fine. But I was just 
> wondering what the purpose of this was?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gaff