Eclipse Sprotty
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Within the scope of Eclipse Sprotty are
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Diagrams to browse and manipulate models in web applications.
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Support for a distributed runtime: share the workload between a client and server.
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An extensible protocol for the communication between client and server
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Diagram authoring facilities: choosing the content of a diagram, arranging diagram elements manually, adding/removing diagram elements, exploring the neighborhood of an element, reconciling a diagram with changes of the underlying model, trigger auto-layout.
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Diagram navigation facilities: open elements, drill up/down, zoom/scroll/center/fit, selection etc.
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Graphical editing facilities: changing the underlying model via the diagram, create/delete/change/customize/connect elements, undo/redo etc.
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Exporting diagrams to a vector-based graphics format.
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Integration with Xtext and LSP to visualize programming artifacts.
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Integration with IDE frontends like Eclipse Theia or Eclipse IDE.
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Integration with auto-layout engines such as the ELK.
Out of scope are
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Auto-layout algorithms for diagrams. We rely on existing frameworks like ELK instead.
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Visualization of huge datasets, like statistical data or timeseries. These are much better handled with frameworks like D3.js. Sprotty focusses on models, i.e. connected elements with fewer properties.
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3-dimensional visualization.
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Specific model editors/views, e.g. for UML. Of course, Sprotty can be used to implement such a thing, but this should be done in separate downstream projects.
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Tools to author specific diagram editors, like GMF Tooling or Sirius do.
| Name | Date |
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| 0.7.0 Release Review | 2019-10-02 |
| 0.6.0 Release Review | 2019-03-06 |
| Creation Review | 2018-08-01 |