[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Integrate with EMF code generation

[Martin Taal <mtaal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed (and others),
I would like users of Teneo to be able to generate jpa annotations in their model code. My thought 
is that people install the Teneo plugins and EMF plugins and then with minimal 
additions/configurations in their genmodel or project be able to generate jpa annotations in their 
emf-generated code (using the standard EMF code generation menu options). Teneo generates the jpa 
annotations but now I need to get them into the model code.

For this I can use dynamic templates (and provide these templates in a Teneo plugin), but more 
importantly I need to prepare a separate model which is used by the templates, related to this I 
have a classloading question.
For example I would like to add the following code to the templates (before the getter in the template):
jpaAnnotator.getAnnotations(EStructuralFeature eFeature)

however for this to work the EMF code generation plugin needs to know which class/instance 
jpaAnnotator is (i.e. which plugin provides it and how to create it).
In addition it would be nice if the jpaAnnotator could get hold of the actual location of the ecore 
or model files in the workspace so that it can read additional property/xml files. Is this something 
which can be retrieved from the genmodel instance?

Are there specific extension points which I can use for this? Or is there a standard approach I can 
follow?

I looked through previous posts on this topic but my main remaining question is especially the 
classloading issue (how are the teneo plugins 'dynamically' added to the classpath of the emf 
plugins) and how to inject an jpaAnnotator instance in the EMF code generation environment.

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With Regards, Martin Taal

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