[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: ecore editor that only shows a specific typ

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, unfortunately our tools are not always as slick as they would be if 
someone invested a significant time in that aspect.


aappddeevv wrote:
> Ecore tools does indeed have the tree view of the world and its better 
> than the gui for seeing more of the annotations at one time, however, 
> removing the other annotations and operations is not possible. Again, 
> its an ability to see things in context and edit many entries quickly 
> and all at once that helps with editing.
>
> I noticed the need when I saw the difference for seeing things in 
> context and editing quickly in multiple places with java pojo code 
> versus jpa annotations after moving to EMF and teneo (which can be 
> annotation heavy for legacy database mapping). When I realized I need 
> to  make a bunch of edits and add documentation, the disruptive 
> editing flow became clear. I also noticed the editing speed issue when 
> looking into grails/gorm where I could create the domain model as 
> easily (easier actually) in code but my desire is to use EMF+Teneo and 
> hence, annotation editing is the key aspect of this.
>
> This may only be an issue for annotation heavy EMF model frameworks so 
> I do not want to claim that everyone in the world is better off with 
> such an "editor."
>
> I bought the EMF framework book and it is clear that there is plenty 
> of code support for navigating the ecore model and the UI needs a tree 
> viewer with columns and some sort of filtering on the annotations (the 
> right side of the editor).
>
>
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
> > Eike,
> >
> > Ecore Tools has such nice forms for editing extended meta data 
> > annotations.  And make the EEF project could help produce such forms 
> > too...
> >
> >
> > Eike Stepper wrote:
> > > I never heard of such a view but I think it's a nice idea. Why don't 
> > > you develop it and contribute it to the Mint component in EMFT?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > /Eike
> > >
> > > ----
> > > http://thegordian.blogspot.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > aappddeevv schrieb:
> > > > I am using Teneo to store my model data in a RDBMS. Its a legacy 
> > > > database so the table and column names are quite a bit different 
> > > > than those used in the model. I have to add JPA/hibernate 
> > > > annotations to make the model persist correctly.
> > > >
> > > > However, adding and editing the annotations specific to the 
> > > > teneo.jpa annotation is made more difficult without being able to 
> > > > see and edit all of them at one time versus using the properties 
> > > > view for each entity and  continuously reselecting the entity.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a view already created that shows all the entities and 
> > > > attributes on the left and a specific annotation on the right that 
> > > > allows me to edit and see all of the annotations at one time? I 
> > > > wanted to avoid direct XML editing because for ecore, it is quite 
> > > > prone to editing errors that become hard to correct.
> > > >
> > > > With this view I could edit all of the jpa annotations at once and 
> > > > then all of the documentation annotations at once.