| GEF5 versus Sirius/GMF [message #1785388] |
Fri, 13 April 2018 07:57  |
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Hello,
I was looking into the current state of my concrete syntax graphical options for grahpical editors for EMF based models and I had a question.
My understanding is the Sirius has a dependency on an older GEF. Is there a reason I should prefer GEF 5 over Sirius. What are my best options here?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
[Updated on: Fri, 13 April 2018 07:57] by Moderator |
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| Re: GEF5 versus Sirius/GMF [message #1785394 is a reply to message #1785388] |
Fri, 13 April 2018 09:03  |
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Bruce Trask wrote on Fri, 13 April 2018 13:57Hello,
I was looking into the current state of my concrete syntax graphical options for grahpical editors for EMF based models and I had a question.
My understanding is the Sirius has a dependency on an older GEF. Is there a reason I should prefer GEF 5 over Sirius. What are my best options here?
Thanks in advance,
Bruce
Disclaimer: I'm part of the Sirius team.
Yes, Sirius currently depends on the old "GEF Legacy" (3.x), and the GMF Runtime framework above it. We have plans for moving to a different graphical stack, but this will be web-based, not GEF 5. See https://blog.obeo.fr/modeling-tools-go-up-to-the-cloud for some details. This transition will take time however, so in the meantime Sirius is still GEF 3 & GMF Runtime based. Of course the transition to the web can be accelerated if we can get sponsors to help ;-)
I don't have direct experience with GEF 5, but the differences I see:
* GEF 5 is a Java framework (so you have to write your modeler in Java) while Sirius is more declarative (if your needs are aligned with its feature set, you can get a working modeler very quickly and without writing Java code, or very little).
* GEF 5 will give you a more modern look and more fine grained control on the look of your diagrams and the interaction mechanisms, but again at the cost of writing possibly complex Java code. Sirius has many customization mechanisms (some inherited from GEF 3 itself), but is probably less flexible than GEF 5 here.
* Sirius is designed from the start to edit EMF-based model, so it provides a complete solution to manage their lifecycle. I'm sure GEF can work with EMF models, but unless this has changed since GEF 3, it is not handled by the framework itself.
Regards,
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