Eclipse Modeling Framework (The Eclipse Series)

By David SteinbergFrank BudinskyTimothy J. Grose, et al.

A guide to the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), this text shows how EMF unifies three important technologies: Java, XML and UML. It provides an overview of the EMF classes including a complete quick reference for all the classes and methods in the EMF 1.1 API. Examples are included. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131425420
• ISBN13: 9780131425422
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Best and Only Book on EMF

This is the best and only work on the Eclipse Modeling Framework, which is the code generation engine built into the Eclipse IDE. It's a solid work, but it's one flaw is that it is neither a completely how-to book, nor is it completely architectural work, so it will probably frustrate most readers to some degree. This is the only reason I didn't give it a perfect rating.

Significant Productivity Gains

If you have used Eclipse to program Java, you might have gotten comfortable with its capabilities. Very intuitive and kindly donated by IBM to open source. So when I opened this book, I anticipated oodles of helpful tweaks and shortcuts.But not so. IBM has indeed provided these in the book. But their goals were far more ambitious. The Eclipse Modelling Framework is a serious effort to incorporate into a development environment...

Essential EMF Reading

If you are doing modeling already you will find this book invaluable, if you are on the fense tetering between like and dislike for modeling this book will push you over the edge to loving it.The authors go through each of the aspects of EMF in detail so you can not only build a great model for your application but also explain what is happening so that you understand what is going on within the framework.My only negative...