[news.eclipse.platform] Re: [Databinding, General UI] UI brainstorming,

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boris Bokowski schrieb:
> We had a good discussion on the topic of using modeling for UIs at the 
> Eclipse Summit Europe 08. What I took away from that discussion is that 
> there are three areas where modeling makes sense:
> 
> 1. At the widget level, where you would have a 1:1 mapping between the 
> widgets and objects in your model. XSWT and XWT are in this space, as is 
> Olivier's wazaabi 2. What I find important is that at runtime, you don't end 
> up with twice as many objects, so being able to directly create widgets from 
> a persistent representation is important. At the same time, having EMF 
> objects that are again 1:1 mapped to SWT widgets is interesting for tooling 
> purposes, so maybe what we should do is have a persistent format for SWT 
> widgets, which can also be read in to create EMF objects if you are in 
> "design mode".
> 
> 2. At the application level, where you don't model the innards of your UI 
> components (views, editors, ...) but you model how those components are 
> glued together. An example of this is Application.ecore/Workbench.ecore in 
> e4 (see org.eclipse.e4.model.workbench).
> 
> 3. At an abstraction level higher than (1), but still concerned about 
> "inner" UIs, are things like the proposed PMF project 
> (http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/PMF). The idea here is that if you have a 

http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/pmf/

Tom

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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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