[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: project dependency obstructs EMF .genmodel

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nikolaj,

When the dependant project is there, the wizard will look for the .genmodel in that project and will use
that to help build the model for A, which presumably depends on B.  Perhaps there's something not quite
right about the .genmodel in B that's causing a problem.   But you are saying there are no exceptions and
nothing in the workspace/.metadata/.log, so there isn't really any clue what might be wrong.
Unfortunately, I can't come up with a theory without some better ideas about what makes your B and A
special enough to not work.  Can you reproduce a test case?


Nikolaj Berntsen wrote:

> > You need to add project B as a dependent project when creating Java project
> > A. See Tutorial: Generating an Extended EMF Model at:
> > http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/emf-home/docs/slibmod/slibmod_main.html
>
> Sorry, that important information was left out (despite proofreading it
> several times, ahh the easy of fooling oneself).
>
> The EMF generation fails  when B is a dependent project. It does not
> fail when B is exported to a jar and copied to project A.
>
> (If B was neither a dependent project nor exported to a jar, then I
> would get compile errors -  I usually see that before posting .-)
>
> Cheers,
> /\/ikolaj
>
> >
> > Frank.
> >
> >
> > Nikolaj Berntsen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dear Group,
> >>
> >>I just spent a long time comming to the following conclusion.
> >>
> >>If an eclipse project A (containing @model marked up interfaces) depends
> >>on an eclipse java project B (e.g. providing foo.bar.Goo.java), then
> >>generating an EMF model (Context-Menu-on-A->New->Other->Eclipse
> >>Modelling Framework->EMF Models) fails to pick up the package in project
> >>A (last part of the wizard). No errors, no debug on the console (I might
> >>be able to increase verbosity somewhere).
> >>
> >>I project B is exported to a Jar and the jar is copied to project A,
> >>then everything works.
> >>
> >>I am using eclipse 2.1.1 (and 3.0 M3) and EMF 1.1.1.
> >>
> >>(It might be migh memory, but sometimes it seems to work anyhow)
> >>
> >>Is this a bug or a feature?
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>/\/ikolaj
> >
> >