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Generating Hostable Picto Views/Server Use [message #1844147]

Fri, 03 September 2021 03:05

Jörn Guy Süß

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Anstead, Brisbane, Queens...

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Picto seems very useful for inspecting model information. However, it is tied to Eclipse views. Is there information on how

a toolchain can render plantuml files from Picto
a webserver can be built to show picto views online
html files can be rendered that show picto views statically

All of these options would yield high value for us.

I assume that this could be as simple as redirecting the rendering of the output stream to an html file, or providing a library call to mix in the underlying picto processing in the EGL.

Running picto as part of the headless EGX/EGL rendering would be ideal.

[Updated on: Fri, 03 September 2021 04:27]

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Re: Generating Hostable Picto Views/Server Use [message #1844151 is a reply to message #1844147]

Fri, 03 September 2021 08:53

Dimitris Kolovos

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Registered: July 2009
Location: York, UK

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Hi Jörn,

Picto is excessively bound to the Eclipse UI at the moment, so some refactoring is clearly due. In the meantime, does this plugged-in test [1] which exercises Picto programmatically help at all?

On a related note, there's an article on the Epsilon website [2] that discusses using EGL as a server-side scripting language in case this is of interest.

Best,
Dimitris

[1] https://git.eclipse.org/c/epsilon/org.eclipse.epsilon.git/tree/tests/org.eclipse.epsilon.picto.test/src/org/eclipse/epsilon/picto/test/SocialNetworkTests.java
[2] https://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/egl-server-side/

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