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

[Jim van Dam <jim.van.dam@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ilyas,

> Is it planned to provide a graphical editor to create PMF models?
Yes, but we will start out by using an EMF-based tree-type editor.

> Is it planned to provide a textual DSL for PMF?
Yes, that is also a goal, but not for the first release.
I know of a couple of efforts providing textual editors in the UI 
modeling world (WebDSL is from 'my' university) and am actually involved 
with one of these at mod4J. I try to keep in touch with some of the UI 
modeling projects so we can either join forces or at least learn from 
each other.

We plan to have a few different target environments to demonstrate the 
capabilities (e4, EMF-live-model, JFace), but I expect us to start 
simple at the editor part and first have the full chain up and running.

Regards,

Jim


Ilyas Keser wrote:
> 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