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Meta-Data XML or Java [message #104479]

Wed, 31 August 2005 07:55

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nightblue99.yahoo.com

Hi;

Why Visual editor saves the design content in Java source file? Is
possible to use any other meta-data to save the design? and how?

Thanks;

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Re: Meta-Data XML or Java [message #104569 is a reply to message #104479]

Wed, 31 August 2005 21:05

Gili Mendel

Messages: 338
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

nightblue wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> Why Visual editor saves the design content in Java source file? Is
> possible to use any other meta-data to save the design? and how?
>
> Thanks;
>

Actually VE translates the source to an EMF model by reverse parsing the code, and modeling only visual relevant items.
After the first open, VE will save a cached version of the emf model as XMI:

<Workspace>.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.resources\.projects\ <projectName>\org.eclipse.ve.java.core\.cache\emfmodel\<FileName >
You can opened it up with IE (or anything that knows how to render XML) and take a peek.

VE tries to use this cache when the file is reOpened to speed up revers parsing.
See VEModelCacheUtility.doSaveCache() of how it is saved.

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