[news.eclipse.modeling] Re: [PMF] Current status

[Ilyas Keser <ilyas.keser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

> Good to hear you believe the goals of PMF are important too.
> We are in the process of merging the contributions of the initial 
> committers. That is not checked in yet, but we hope to post that soon as 
> we are looking forward to getting feedback and ofcourse additional 
> helpers...
> You can subscribe to the pmf-dev list through 
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/pmf-dev

Thank you for your answer. I subscribed myself to the pmf-dev mailinglist.

> You can also look at the demos of both Yves and Olivier for a quick 
> intro. In the meantime, if you have questions, suggestions or a use 
> cases for PMF you would like to share, feel free to post it here. As you 
> just did ;-)

Thanks. I have some additional questions:

Is it planned to provide a graphical editor to create PMF models? 

Another question is about the textual representation of the PMF models. Textual models have some advantages, for example they are simple to diff and better suited for teamwork. If I think about WPF, it provides a graphical editor to create the user interface and generates as result of the modeling process a XAML file. Additionally, there are already some textual DSLs for similar (specific) purposes:

- OASIS User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
- WebDSL (http://webdsl.org/webdslorg/home)
- WebML (http://www.webml.org/webml/page1.do)
- USIXMML (http://www.usixml.org/index.php?mod=pages&id=2)
- ...

Is it planned to provide a textual DSL for PMF? 

Regars,
ILyas