[news.eclipse.technology.ldt] Re: Beyond textual represenations...

[Guillaume Pothier <gpothier@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I do not understand. EMF is meta-language. You could define own 
> languages using it. It is possible to define UML model with it. It is 
> also possible to define other models with it. For example in one of the 
> project it was used to model energy consumption schedule. See MDA papers 
> at http://www.omg.org/mda/ to understand context of the project better.

Ok, it seems I need more reading about EMF. If it is as you say, their 
Overview document is quite misleading.

> As I said emf might be used to create any models: uml, emf (yes it is 
> expressed in itself), Gantt charts, stock portfolios in banking 
> applications, energy consumption schedule, bibliography metadata, css, 
> and ll1-grammars. And that is just what I personally witnessed my 
> applications or in applications developed by others.

If so then it might indeed be a good fit.

> > However, I don't doubt that they have a good infrastructure for 
> > persisting and managing their models, and the creation of the GMF 
> > project is exciting. But they both seem tied to Java or Java-like 
> > languages, and at least to OOP...
> > I feel that LDT should go beyond that. I hope it will.
>
> Could you please outline these directions?

Well, I have hinted them in other posts, but the links to SCID and 
Jetbrains' article posted by others will give you a much better idea...
Here they are:
http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/is1/articles/04/10/lop/
http://mindprod.com/projects/scid.html