Eclipse EMF Diff/Merge 0.3.0
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EMF Diff/Merge is a diff/merge tool for models. Its main purpose is to help build higher-level tools that need to merge models based on consistency rules. GUI components are also provided. Typical usages include model refactoring, iterative model transformations, bridges between models or modeling tools, collaborative modeling environments, or versioning systems.
This is the Luna release of EMF Diff/Merge. It provides better flexibility and customization facilities in order to cover a wider range of usages and integration scenarios.
The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".
EMF Diff/Merge is made of two components:
- A diff/merge engine. This component can be customized/extended via model scopes (what to compare), match and diff policies (how to compare) and merge policies (how to merge).
- A GUI component which relies on the engine. This component provides an extension point which allows specifying engine customizations that are made available in the GUI.
In addition, each component comes with a simple customization for GMF scopes (diagrams and models) that illustrates the overall extendibility of the technology.
No security issue identified.
The complete EMF Diff/Merge documentation is available from the EMF Diff/Merge Wiki page:
- General information: Introduction, Context and issues, Tool overview, Principle of the solution
- Usage: Programmatic and via default GUI
- Complete javadoc
- Documents
- Download information
- Useful links
EMF Diff/Merge intends to conform to the User Interface Guidelines.
No EMF Diff/Merge component is deprecated so far.
EMF Diff/Merge does not implement any standard.
EMF Diff/Merge obtained the "Most innovative project/feature" award at EclipseCon World 2013. It is a young project whose usage is spreading.
The forum, bugzilla and Gerrit show activity by different people and organizations. In particular, several Gerrit pull requests have been submitted by people external to the project.
Questions on the forum arise on a regular basis, some of them receiving significant attention: the thread with the highest number of views has a total of almost 14,000 views.