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Try to use GMF but failed. [message #4334] Mon, 26 December 2005 09:37 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: allenmacyoung.gmail.com

I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used 1.0M3
which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but from my
experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform. So I
downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications either in
the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.

Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is also
not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the tuturial. If
there is any experience, please share it.

I also generated the xpdl model from xpdl2.0 schema. A very interesting
thing is that, EMF does generated two model named xpdl1 and xpdl2. For now,
I haven't find their differences and the classes in each model do have some
wrong information. I know that the generation from xml schema to ecore is
not 100% correct. So this is what we should keep an eye on.

GMF is now M3. I am thinking that maybe this project fully depends on GMF's
schedule. Am I right? Do we have our own schedule now? I want to have a look
at it.

Allen.
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #4404 is a reply to message #4334] Tue, 27 December 2005 11:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael N. Lipp is currently offline Michael N. LippFriend
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Allen Young wrote:
> I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used 1.0M3
> which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but from my
> experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform. So I
> downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications either in
> the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.

Why have you tried "experimental" versions? I have simply installed the
latest stable eclipse (3.1.1), added GEF though "Software Updates" ...

>
> Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
> able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is also
> not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the tuturial. If
> there is any experience, please share it.

.... and have experienced no problems. To get started, there is a
complete Redbook from IBM with step by step instructions. It has been
written for an older GEF version, but is still very useful. There are
also several open source projects around that build on GEF and can help
to get started.

>
> I also generated the xpdl model from xpdl2.0 schema. A very interesting
> thing is that, EMF does generated two model named xpdl1 and xpdl2. For now,
> I haven't find their differences and the classes in each model do have some
> wrong information. I know that the generation from xml schema to ecore is
> not 100% correct. So this is what we should keep an eye on.

EMF generation for XPDL 2.0 is an advanced topic. It does work, but is
too complicated to describe in a few sentences. I had the advantage of
trying it with XPDL 1.0 first and really understood EMF generation while
doing this.

The XPDL 2.0 XSD schema also uses the XPDL 1.0 namespace to achieve
backward compatibility. That's why you get two models.

Though eclipse/EMF suggests that everything is just point and click, it
really needs deep understanding (first of all of the schema itself). I
have spend about two weeks' evenings before I succeeded with the
generation (starting with zero EMF knowledge). But I do believe that it
is a good investment of time on the long run.

>
> GMF is now M3. I am thinking that maybe this project fully depends on GMF's
> schedule. Am I right? Do we have our own schedule now? I want to have a look
> at it.
>
> Allen.

Of course, there are other graphical toolkits around ...

- Michael
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #4543 is a reply to message #4404] Wed, 28 December 2005 01:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: allenmacyoung.gmail.com

Hi, Michael:

I used "experimental" versions because they are on the GMF 1.0M3's
requirements list. I have some experience on GEF and are trying to get
familiar with EMF. But talking about GMF, I have no experience at all. So I
read the tutorial and run the example(which failed).

About EMF generation for XPDL 2.0, I am thinking whether we should draw the
UML from XPDL first, and then make the generation from UML. This can
guarantee the correctness. After all, we must understand the XPDL schema
first after which drawing UML should not be that difficult.

Again Michael, if you have already run the GMF tutorial's example
successfully, please tell me how to make it.
Thank you~

Allen
"Michael N. Lipp" <mnl@mnl.de> wrote in message
news:dor8h3$3bq$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Allen Young wrote:
>> I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used 1.0M3
>> which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but from my
>> experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform. So I
>> downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications either
>> in the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.
>
> Why have you tried "experimental" versions? I have simply installed the
> latest stable eclipse (3.1.1), added GEF though "Software Updates" ...
>
>>
>> Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
>> able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is
>> also not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the
>> tuturial. If there is any experience, please share it.
>
> ... and have experienced no problems. To get started, there is a complete
> Redbook from IBM with step by step instructions. It has been written for
> an older GEF version, but is still very useful. There are also several
> open source projects around that build on GEF and can help to get started.
>
>>
>> I also generated the xpdl model from xpdl2.0 schema. A very interesting
>> thing is that, EMF does generated two model named xpdl1 and xpdl2. For
>> now, I haven't find their differences and the classes in each model do
>> have some wrong information. I know that the generation from xml schema
>> to ecore is not 100% correct. So this is what we should keep an eye on.
>
> EMF generation for XPDL 2.0 is an advanced topic. It does work, but is too
> complicated to describe in a few sentences. I had the advantage of trying
> it with XPDL 1.0 first and really understood EMF generation while doing
> this.
>
> The XPDL 2.0 XSD schema also uses the XPDL 1.0 namespace to achieve
> backward compatibility. That's why you get two models.
>
> Though eclipse/EMF suggests that everything is just point and click, it
> really needs deep understanding (first of all of the schema itself). I
> have spend about two weeks' evenings before I succeeded with the
> generation (starting with zero EMF knowledge). But I do believe that it is
> a good investment of time on the long run.
>
>>
>> GMF is now M3. I am thinking that maybe this project fully depends on
>> GMF's schedule. Am I right? Do we have our own schedule now? I want to
>> have a look at it.
>>
>> Allen.
>
> Of course, there are other graphical toolkits around ...
>
> - Michael
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #4889 is a reply to message #4543] Tue, 03 January 2006 17:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: rzulauf.objeng.ch

Hi Allen

Allen Young wrote:
> Hi, Michael:
>
> I used "experimental" versions because they are on the GMF 1.0M3's
> requirements list. I have some experience on GEF and are trying to get
> familiar with EMF. But talking about GMF, I have no experience at all. So I
> read the tutorial and run the example(which failed).
I downloaded Eclipse 3.2M3 (windows platform) and GMF 1.0M3 as well as
all other dependencies and it seems to work well except the taipan demo
- that is, at least running all other samples works.

Here is the full list of dependencies needed:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/gmf/downloads/drops/S -1.0M3-200511182000/index.php

Hope this helps.

Regards Roman
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #4957 is a reply to message #4889] Tue, 03 January 2006 20:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: fabrice.dewasmes.openwide.fr

I also tried to download these but for me it also fails. If you try to go
along the tutorial you will find yourself stuck when you want to create a
new gmfgraph. The only way to be able to create this is to get the GMF
integration build. Even though you get this, you'll still be stuck as the
gmfmap editor seems unstable : I can't get the canvas mapping work...

Did you successfully do all the tutorial ?

Fabrice
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #5158 is a reply to message #4957] Wed, 04 January 2006 07:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: rzulauf.objeng.ch

> I also tried to download these but for me it also fails. If you try to
> go along the tutorial you will find yourself stuck when you want to
> create a new gmfgraph. The only way to be able to create this is to get
> the GMF integration build. Even though you get this, you'll still be
> stuck as the gmfmap editor seems unstable : I can't get the canvas
> mapping work...
>
> Did you successfully do all the tutorial ?
No I actually did not, I only looked at the few provided demos.
I guess this raises the issue if GMF is the correct framework to base
our work on, or if we'll have to stick with EMF/GEF. Altough according
to their roadmap they will have an API freeze for 1.0 in march, so we
could expect things to be more stable by then.

Regards,
Roman
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #5225 is a reply to message #5158] Wed, 04 January 2006 09:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: fabrice.dewasmes.openwide.fr

Roman Zulauf wrote:
>> I also tried to download these but for me it also fails. If you try to
>> go along the tutorial you will find yourself stuck when you want to
>> create a new gmfgraph. The only way to be able to create this is to
>> get the GMF integration build. Even though you get this, you'll still
>> be stuck as the gmfmap editor seems unstable : I can't get the canvas
>> mapping work...
>>
>> Did you successfully do all the tutorial ?
>
> No I actually did not, I only looked at the few provided demos.
> I guess this raises the issue if GMF is the correct framework to base
> our work on, or if we'll have to stick with EMF/GEF.

This is also my opinion. At this time I would say we cannot go with GMF,
at least until it becomes stable.
However, reading the tutorial, GMF seems interesting to speed up
development. I'm always afraid of using code generation tool, especially
when the times come to generate again. But things seems pretty well
separated using JET. I'm reading EMF/GEF/GMF material but if anyone has
some concrete user experience on using GMF it would be interesting to
know what are his thoughts.

Altough according
> to their roadmap they will have an API freeze for 1.0 in march, so we
> could expect things to be more stable by then.

I think that we can keep an eye on the project and mention that this is
a possible way to implement things for the creation review.

>
> Regards,
> Roman

Fabrice
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #7661 is a reply to message #4543] Sun, 08 January 2006 23:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: vgv8.yahoo.com.br

I would agree with Allen. He is original (in that he is not mimicking
opinions and visions of others, in this case, of IBM).

I have exactly the same project for me alone for 3 months that you all are
going to accomplish in more than a year scale.

I should recreate anew in GEF with EMF already existing Workflow Graphical
Editor in Swing.

What is killing me is that no old/Swing code may be (re)used and
requirement of EMF. It is just "pain in the ass". Nobody has experience with
it but everybody wants it.

I also had big enthusiasm about EMF initially . It is a great time-,
good-wishes- and sanity-killer.

Let me cite from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_view_controller
:
"The best models are fully encapsulated, meaning that they implement every
aspect of that real world object of interest to the domain of interest, and
that they don't have any extra code that doesn't model the real world."
what I am rereading for a second day for some or another reasons.

Correct me,
Guennadi Vanine

"Allen Young" <allenmacyoung@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dospan$jv7$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi, Michael:
>
> I used "experimental" versions because they are on the GMF 1.0M3's
> requirements list. I have some experience on GEF and are trying to get
> familiar with EMF. But talking about GMF, I have no experience at all. So
> I read the tutorial and run the example(which failed).
>
> About EMF generation for XPDL 2.0, I am thinking whether we should draw
> the UML from XPDL first, and then make the generation from UML. This can
> guarantee the correctness. After all, we must understand the XPDL schema
> first after which drawing UML should not be that difficult.
>
> Again Michael, if you have already run the GMF tutorial's example
> successfully, please tell me how to make it.
> Thank you~
>
> Allen
> "Michael N. Lipp" <mnl@mnl.de> wrote in message
> news:dor8h3$3bq$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>> Allen Young wrote:
>>> I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used
>>> 1.0M3 which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but
>>> from my experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform.
>>> So I downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications
>>> either in the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.
>>
>> Why have you tried "experimental" versions? I have simply installed the
>> latest stable eclipse (3.1.1), added GEF though "Software Updates" ...
>>
>>>
>>> Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
>>> able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is
>>> also not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the
>>> tuturial. If there is any experience, please share it.
>>
>> ... and have experienced no problems. To get started, there is a complete
>> Redbook from IBM with step by step instructions. It has been written for
>> an older GEF version, but is still very useful. There are also several
>> open source projects around that build on GEF and can help to get
>> started.
>>
>>>
>>> I also generated the xpdl model from xpdl2.0 schema. A very interesting
>>> thing is that, EMF does generated two model named xpdl1 and xpdl2. For
>>> now, I haven't find their differences and the classes in each model do
>>> have some wrong information. I know that the generation from xml schema
>>> to ecore is not 100% correct. So this is what we should keep an eye on.
>>
>> EMF generation for XPDL 2.0 is an advanced topic. It does work, but is
>> too complicated to describe in a few sentences. I had the advantage of
>> trying it with XPDL 1.0 first and really understood EMF generation while
>> doing this.
>>
>> The XPDL 2.0 XSD schema also uses the XPDL 1.0 namespace to achieve
>> backward compatibility. That's why you get two models.
>>
>> Though eclipse/EMF suggests that everything is just point and click, it
>> really needs deep understanding (first of all of the schema itself). I
>> have spend about two weeks' evenings before I succeeded with the
>> generation (starting with zero EMF knowledge). But I do believe that it
>> is a good investment of time on the long run.
>>
>>>
>>> GMF is now M3. I am thinking that maybe this project fully depends on
>>> GMF's schedule. Am I right? Do we have our own schedule now? I want to
>>> have a look at it.
>>>
>>> Allen.
>>
>> Of course, there are other graphical toolkits around ...
>>
>> - Michael
>
>
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #7702 is a reply to message #7661] Sun, 08 January 2006 23:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: vgv8.yahoo.com.br

Hi,
my previous post was reply to Allen's post but in thread "Re:How to be
really generic"

Please discard (or remove) it here

Guennadi Vanine
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #7744 is a reply to message #5225] Sun, 08 January 2006 23:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: vgv8.yahoo.com.br

and mine...

But I woulf like to understand:
- may I use Eclipse3.1.1 (it is just crazy to base my project on Eclipse
which release will be in half a year)?
- anybody succeded with TAIPAN on Windows?

Guennadi Vanine
"Fabrice Dewasmes" <fabrice.dewasmes@openwide.fr> wrote in message
news:dpg3ld$t5n$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Roman Zulauf wrote:
>>> I also tried to download these but for me it also fails. If you try to
>>> go along the tutorial you will find yourself stuck when you want to
>>> create a new gmfgraph. The only way to be able to create this is to get
>>> the GMF integration build. Even though you get this, you'll still be
>>> stuck as the gmfmap editor seems unstable : I can't get the canvas
>>> mapping work...
>>>
>>> Did you successfully do all the tutorial ?
>>
>> No I actually did not, I only looked at the few provided demos.
>> I guess this raises the issue if GMF is the correct framework to base our
>> work on, or if we'll have to stick with EMF/GEF.
>
> This is also my opinion. At this time I would say we cannot go with GMF,
> at least until it becomes stable.
> However, reading the tutorial, GMF seems interesting to speed up
> development. I'm always afraid of using code generation tool, especially
> when the times come to generate again. But things seems pretty well
> separated using JET. I'm reading EMF/GEF/GMF material but if anyone has
> some concrete user experience on using GMF it would be interesting to know
> what are his thoughts.
>
> Altough according
>> to their roadmap they will have an API freeze for 1.0 in march, so we
>> could expect things to be more stable by then.
>
> I think that we can keep an eye on the project and mention that this is a
> possible way to implement things for the creation review.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Roman
>
> Fabrice
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #7806 is a reply to message #7744] Mon, 09 January 2006 10:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: fabrice.dewasmes.openwide.fr

Guennadi Vanine wrote:
> and mine...

difficult to say what you're agree with. Please avoid top posting style
and write your answer just below what you're replying to, this helps
reading and understanding.

>
> But I woulf like to understand:
> - may I use Eclipse3.1.1 (it is just crazy to base my project on Eclipse
> which release will be in half a year)?

Eclipse 3.2 is on its way and I think we should go with it.


> - anybody succeded with TAIPAN on Windows?

i'm using linux and failed to launch it

regards

Fabrice

>
> Guennadi Vanine
> "Fabrice Dewasmes" <fabrice.dewasmes@openwide.fr> wrote in message
> news:dpg3ld$t5n$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>
>>Roman Zulauf wrote:
>>
>>>>I also tried to download these but for me it also fails. If you try to
>>>>go along the tutorial you will find yourself stuck when you want to
>>>>create a new gmfgraph. The only way to be able to create this is to get
>>>>the GMF integration build. Even though you get this, you'll still be
>>>>stuck as the gmfmap editor seems unstable : I can't get the canvas
>>>>mapping work...
>>>>
>>>>Did you successfully do all the tutorial ?
>>>
>>>No I actually did not, I only looked at the few provided demos.
>>>I guess this raises the issue if GMF is the correct framework to base our
>>>work on, or if we'll have to stick with EMF/GEF.
>>
>>This is also my opinion. At this time I would say we cannot go with GMF,
>>at least until it becomes stable.
>>However, reading the tutorial, GMF seems interesting to speed up
>>development. I'm always afraid of using code generation tool, especially
>>when the times come to generate again. But things seems pretty well
>>separated using JET. I'm reading EMF/GEF/GMF material but if anyone has
>>some concrete user experience on using GMF it would be interesting to know
>>what are his thoughts.
>>
>>Altough according
>>
>>>to their roadmap they will have an API freeze for 1.0 in march, so we
>>>could expect things to be more stable by then.
>>
>>I think that we can keep an eye on the project and mention that this is a
>>possible way to implement things for the creation review.
>>
>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Roman
>>
>>Fabrice
>
>
>
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #10212 is a reply to message #4334] Tue, 10 January 2006 02:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Allen Young" <allenmacyoung@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:doodh7$jij$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used 1.0M3
>which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but from my
>experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform. So I
>downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications either in
>the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.

I had a similar experience but as of the following nightly build,
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/gmf/downloads/drops/N -N20060104-200601040410/index.php ,
everything is working fine for me.

>
> Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
> able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is
> also not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the
> tuturial. If there is any experience, please share it.

We are going ahead with the generation of a GMF based front end for a DOD
communications model defined with EMF.
I will share our experiences and follow your development efforts as they may
be of use to us for our OV-5 activity models.
Re: Try to use GMF but failed. [message #10275 is a reply to message #10212] Tue, 10 January 2006 09:09 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: fabrice.dewasmes.openwide.fr

Charlie wrote:
> "Allen Young" <allenmacyoung@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:doodh7$jij$1@utils.eclipse.org...
>
>>I tried GMF last weekend, but things seem not to be so good. I used 1.0M3
>>which is the latest stable build. It requires eclipse 3.2M3, but from my
>>experience, it cannot run on eclipse 3.2M3 on Windows platform. So I
>>downloaded 3.2M4. But I still cannot run any example applications either in
>>the GMF plugin itself or follow the tutorial at its home page.
>
>
> I had a similar experience but as of the following nightly build,
> http://download.eclipse.org/technology/gmf/downloads/drops/N -N20060104-200601040410/index.php ,
> everything is working fine for me.
>

OK I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for this pointer.

>
>>Everything happened shows that GMF is still under development and is not
>>able to be used very smoothly, its help in the eclipse help contents is
>>also not very mature. Maybe you guys have already run throught the
>>tuturial. If there is any experience, please share it.
>
>
> We are going ahead with the generation of a GMF based front end for a DOD
> communications model defined with EMF.
> I will share our experiences and follow your development efforts as they may
> be of use to us for our OV-5 activity models.
>

This is interesting. Very few people have experience on GMF based model
and I think that there are few people that have built a EMF-backed GEF
application either.
Thanks to keep us posted about your experience.

regards

Fabrice
>
>
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