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Karsten Thoms, itemis

Spraying - a quick way to create GraphitisEclipseCon 2012

Dienstag, 27. März 2012

http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/spray/downloads/detail?name=SprayCodeGeneration2012.pdf




Graphiti

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• Framework approach

• Easy to understand (relatively...)• Hides complexity of GEF, Draw2D, ...• Only few core concepts• Everything is a Feature• Providers


Graphiti

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• Much code, often repetitive implementation

• Per mapped meta class• at least AddFeature, CreateFeature, UpdateFeature

• Remove, Delete, Move, Layout, DrillDown, ...

• Registration in FeatureProvider

• Configure palette in ToolBehaviourProvider

• Repeat this e.g. for 10 meta classes...


Spray a Graphiti!


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Vision

Develop Visual DSL Editors

as easy as Textual DSLsDienstag, 27. März 2012

A brief history of time

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• Project specific solution for Visual Insurance Product Modeling• CodeGeneration Conference

Cambridge, July 2011• Similar approaches presented• Joined forces in BoF session

• Founded project at EclipseLabs• Sep’11: initial code basis committed (Spray 0.1.0)• Improved code basis, DSLs, tooling, added DSLs, ...• Version 0.4.0 released March 2012


The project team

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• Jos Warmer (Founder, Warmer IT)

• Karsten Thoms (Founder, itemis) • Prof. Dr. Marko Boger (Founder, University of

Konstanz, Founder of Gentleware)• Fabio Filipelli & Markus Gerhart (Shapes & Style DSL,

University of Konstanz)

• Jörg Reichert (itemis)


Tycho

EEFSWTBot

Zest

GEF


Spray Code Generator


Spray DSL


Spray DSL

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Spray DSL

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Spray DSL

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Spray DSL

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Shapes


Defining Shapes

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The Shape


Defining Shapes - with Graphiti

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Defining Shapes - with Spray

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Connections defined in Shape DSL

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(c) University of Konstanz


Anchors

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Shapes created with Shape DSL

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Styles


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Styles

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• Styles can be reused

• Styles can be inherited• Style attributes can be

overridden• Nested Shapes inherit

style from container Shape



Future PlansComplex Diagrams: BPMN, UML, PetriNet

Evolve DSLs

Leverage power of the used tools

Use Spray as reference forXtext, Xtend, Graphiti, Tychousage


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