[news.eclipse.stp.sca-tools] Re: SCA Meta-model & Designer extensibility

[Vincent Zurczak <vincent.zurczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bogdan.


Bogdan Vatkov a écrit :
> I see SCA meta-model and designer extensibility is possible since 
> December 2008 but I cannot find much details how this is technically done.
> Could you please, describe with few sentences how this could be 
> achieved? e.g. is done only via extension points, what would be those 
> extension point?
> Is there an example how the common SCA meta-model is extended with e.g. 
> additional binding type? How component visualizations are contriubuted 
> to the Deigner? 

Yes, there are examples in the trunk showing how you can extend the
model and the diagram editor.

For the model extension (add a new binding and a new implementation),
take a look at *.domainmodel.frascati, *.domainmodel.frascati.edit and
*.domainmodel.frascati.editor (there is also an extension for Apache
Tuscany).

For the designer extension, take a look at *.diagram.frascati.

And to extend the validation (to add extra-constraints on your model),
you can take a look at *.validation.frascati


> Is it possible to change the shapes of the core
> components in the SCA Designer via extension point too?

Maybe Stéphane has done something about this, but I don't think it is
possible.


Regards,

           Vincent Zurczak.


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