2014 Bucharest Democamp

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Dynamic UI rendering with ECP 1.3Eclipse DemoCamp Bucharest

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Dorin Ciuca

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ECP - EMF Client Platform

• “The goal is to provide reusable, adaptable and extensible UI components to develop applications based on a given EMF model.”

• “All components can be used stand-alone and be embedded into your own application. ”

http://eclipse.org/ecp/index.html

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ECP - Components

• Explorer• Editor • Repository

Explorer

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EMF Forms

• is a framework to efficiently develop form-based UIs based on a given data model

• the UI is described in a simple view model

• view model is then interpreted by an adaptable and exchangeable rendering component

• allows you to render the same UI using different UI technologies: Swing, SWT, JavaFX or Web just by replacing the renderer

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EMF Forms

Domain model View model

UI rendered

Renderer

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View model

• It is an ecore model

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View model

• It defines layout

• It adds layout elements that are not mapped to domain model elements e.g. groups

• It augments domain model elements with hints about rendering

• It adds rules for renderer based on expressions involving other domain elements e.g. enable/disable/show/hide some items when condition

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View model

• It is registered with extension point

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View model

• It is extendable You can create other model containing new elements and register through extension point the corresponding render .

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View model

• Tools support: it has an editor in IDE

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EMF Formshow to embed generated UI in your application

• probeComposite – is the parent composite in client’s UI code• probe – is the domain model (data model) element to render

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EMF Forms – rendering details

creates

Renders based on a view model element.

Renders based on a domain model element.

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EMF Forms – renders hierarchy

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EMF Forms – renders hierarchy