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The goal of Graphiti is to support the fast and easy creation of graphical tools, which can display and edit underlying domain models using a tool-defined graphical notation. Graphiti supports the developer in getting to a first version of an editor with very low effort by:

Hiding platform specific technology (e.g. GEF / Draw2D on Eclipse)
Providing rich default implementations inside the framework
Providing a default look and feel that was designed in close co-operation with usability specialists

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eclipse.graphiti [nntp]

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Technology Types:

Modeling

Runtime

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Scope:

The objectives of the Graphiti project are the following:

Provide an easy to use and well structured plain Java API for building graphical tools
Provide documentation and tutorials for doing so
Limit the dependencies of the framework to an absolute minimum to support RCP-like scenarios
Provide optional components beyond the RCP use case to ease e.g. IDE integration
Provide the ability to use any existing layout algorithms for auto layouting a diagram

As the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) already exists as a project targeting a similar objective, we distinguish Graphiti from GMF as follows:

Graphiti

GMF

Architectural Concept

runtime centric API

generative

API

self-contained

refers to GEF functionality

Client Logic

centralised (feature concept)

functionality distributed since there are no constraints

Look&Feel

sophisticated default Look&Feel defined by usability specialists (highly customisable according to the tool requirements)

simple default Look&Feel (highly customisable according to the tool requirements in generated coding)

Contribute to this project:

You are highly welcome to contribute to the Graphiti codebase providing fixed, enhancements, examples, doumentation or whatever you would find useful in the framework. Or more details on how to contribute, please have a look at http://wiki.eclipse.org/GMP/Graphiti#Installation_for_Graphiti_Framework_Developers

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You can use the code from these repositories to experiment, test, build, create patches, issue pull requests, etc. This project uses Gerrit Code Review; please see contributing via Gerrit.

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