[news.eclipse.modisco] Re: New Java AST tool based on Java Abstract Synt

[GBarbier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I have added two pages on wiki to explain how to retrieve and install 
needed plugins :

http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/KDM

http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/JavaDiscoverer

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Hello Dennis and Dimitri, 

Have you take a look to the Java Discoverer ? download : 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=258281 
It is composed of a metamodel J2SE5 and a discoverer that populate J2SE5 
models. It provides also a transformation to KDM. It works in a very 
similar way of your plugin Dennis (popup menu from a Java project "Modisco 
Modelplex Knowledge Discovery -> IntermediateModels -> Discover J2SE5 
model from Java project"). 

In fact, J2SE5 metamodel is not very different from JavaAST, I believe 
there is only 10/15 different metaclasses. We have added metaclasses to 
represents binding between java elements. So relationships are not 
represented only by a string, we rebuild also the graph of elements links. 



I have not upgraded JavaAST project because of historics (J2SE5 metamodel 
is born 3 years ago) and I didn't realize that I could change a lot 
JavaAST project (I'm a newcomer in Eclipse Community). 


And you could also be interested in a model browser that allow metaclass 
sort, an infinite view of links, etc. 
doc : http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/MoDisco/ModelBrowser 
download : https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259234 

Regards, 
Gabriel