Hi Dan, thanks for pointing out that there is some kind of overlap between EMF as a metamodel API and the API Apache Isis is already providing. At the moment I saw EMF Forms I was instantly reminded of the initial Naked Object implementation due to the fact that the model actually can be represented by different UI framework implementations.
Concerning you remark that mentions TogetherJ - Do think of something UML-like or something less formal? Over the past 2-3 years I had the feeling UML is still popular in system engineering where amongst the regular software developer population more lightweight approaches such as sketching and wire-frame diagrams became more common. PS: I once contributed to AndroMDA, an approach that I nowadays consider rather heavyweight considering that you had to craft huge UML models and had to annotate them with OCL constraints. Cheers Daniel On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I've looked at EMF once or twice over the years, though not this current > feature. > > The main issue I see in leveraging this technology is that it will depend > upon Eclipse's EMF itself, which is a metamodel API. Isis has had its own > metamodel for many years now, and I don't think there would be anything > really to gain in trying to rewrite to use EMF. > > Still, it's nice to see them doing something that looks similar to the > Naked Objects pattern, even if it is perhaps somewhat limited in its > current scope compared to Isis' capabilities. > > ~~~ > On a related note, I do see that Eclipse have continued to refine on their > IDE tooling for diagrams. One of my long-term ambitions is to provide an > IDE akin to TogetherJ (before Borland bought it and messed it up). > Eclipse's tools might well be the route to supporting this. But as I say > that's a long term goal, not particularly near the top of my to-do list. > > Cheers > Dan > > > > > On 28 July 2014 20:56, Jeroen van der Wal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > The Isis community is always open towards new technologies but (as far > as I > > know) hasn't looked into EMF. Is it a candidate technology to build > another > > viewer or maybe as a bespoke frontend against the restful API? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jeroen > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:49 PM, dsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > sorry if this looks like SPAM - it isn't intended that way. I just > > stumbled > > > upon EMF Forms [1] and thought this would complement Apache Isis quite > > > nicely. > > > > > > Have there already been researches how Apache Isis can leverage or > > > integrate with EMF Forms? > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > http://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2014/june/article4.php > > > > > > Cheers > > > Daniel > > > > > >
