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 		<p>
 		Emf Parsley is a lightweight framework that allows easy and quick development
 		of EMF-based Applications. It can be configured to use all kind of EMF persistence
 		implementations (XMI, Teneo, CDO).
 		</p>
 		<p>
 		It aims at providing a set of Components like Trees, Tables and Detail Forms
 		that manage the model with the introspective EMF capabilities.
 		Using these components you can easily build forms, viewer or editors.
 		The framework provides basic UI implementations which are customizable
 		with Injection mechanism (based on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-guice" >Google Guice</a>).
 		</p>
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 			<br style="clear:both"></br>
 			<h1>Customizations</h1>
 			<p>
 			Basically <em>Emf Parsley</em> provides some built-in components that can be customized in several way.
 			There are 2 ways you can do it: the easy one and the hard one!
 			</p>
 		<a name="Customizations_TheEasyWay" ></a>
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 			<br style="clear:both"></br>
 			<h1>the Easy way</h1>
 			<p>
 			The framework provides a DSL that allows to customize the most relevant behaviors.
 			Currently the following are permitted:
 			<ul>
 			  <li>Content Provider</li>
 			  <li>Label Provider</li>
 			  <li>Guice Bindings</li>
 			  <li>others..</li>
 			</ul>
 			</p>
 			<p>
 			You can use the DSL by creating a new project with the wizard &quot;Create a new project&quot; -&gt; &quot;EMF Parsley DSL Based project&quot;
 			</p>
 			<p>
 			<div class="image" >
 			<a class="gallery" rel="prettyPhoto[all]" title="" href="images/01-new-project-dsl-wizard.png">
 				<img src="images/01-new-project-dsl-wizard.png"
 					width="600px"
 				/>
 			</a>
 			<div class="caption">
 			</div>
 			</div>
 			</p>
 			<p>
 			Clicking the &quot;Finish&quot; button the wizard will open directly the dsl editor. You can use the content assistant
 			to discover all features.
 			</p>
 			<p>
 			<div class="image" >
 			<a class="gallery" rel="prettyPhoto[all]" title="" href="images/01-dsl-content-assistant.png">
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 			<h1>the Hard way</h1>
 			<p>
 			This way is
 			If you need a deeper degree of customizations, you can use the injection mechanism based on Google Guice.
 			The framework has been designed for being completly customized in every detail. All you need to do is provide a custom
 			implementation for a class that implements a specific aspect; then you need to write the corresponding
 			<em>bind</em> method to tell the dependency injection mechanism to use your own custom class.
 			You can use the Java editor content assist to discover all bindings.
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	<li><a href="01-Introduction.php#Customizations_TheEasyWay.php" >the Easy way</a></li>
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	<p>
	Emf Parsley is a lightweight framework that allows easy and quick development
	of EMF-based Applications. It can be configured to use all kind of EMF persistence
	implementations (XMI, Teneo, CDO).
	</p>
	<p>
	It aims at providing a set of Components like Trees, Tables and Detail Forms
	that manage the model with the introspective EMF capabilities.
	Using these components you can easily build forms, viewer or editors.
	The framework provides basic UI implementations which are customizable
	with Injection mechanism (based on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-guice" >Google Guice</a>).
	</p>
	<a name="Customizations" ></a>
	<span style="float:left; border-top: 1px dotted #d4d4dd; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 5px;
	padding: 5px 0;
	padding-top: 5px;"></span><a style="float: right" href="#">Top</a>
	<br style="clear:both"></br>
	<h1>Customizations</h1>
	<p>
	Basically <em>Emf Parsley</em> provides some built-in components that can be customized in several way.
	There are 2 ways you can do it: the easy one and the hard one!
	</p>
	<a name="Customizations_TheEasyWay" ></a>
	<span style="float:left; border-top: 1px dotted #d4d4dd; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 5px;
	padding: 5px 0;
	padding-top: 5px;"></span><a style="float: right" href="#">Top</a>
	<br style="clear:both"></br>
	<h1>the Easy way</h1>
	<p>
	The framework provides a DSL that allows to customize the most relevant behaviors.
	Currently the following are permitted:
	<ul>
	<li>Content Provider</li>
	<li>Label Provider</li>
	<li>Guice Bindings</li>
	<li>others..</li>
	</ul>
	</p>
	<p>
	You can use the DSL by creating a new project with the wizard "Create a new project" -> "EMF Parsley DSL Based project"
	</p>
	<p>
	<div class="image" >
	<a class="gallery" rel="prettyPhoto[all]" title="" href="images/01-new-project-dsl-wizard.png">
	<img src="images/01-new-project-dsl-wizard.png"
	width="600px"
	/>
	</a>
	<div class="caption">
	</div>
	</div>
	</p>
	<p>
	Clicking the "Finish" button the wizard will open directly the dsl editor. You can use the content assistant
	to discover all features.
	</p>
	<p>
	<div class="image" >
	<a class="gallery" rel="prettyPhoto[all]" title="" href="images/01-dsl-content-assistant.png">
	<img src="images/01-dsl-content-assistant.png"
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	/>
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	<a name="Customitations_TheHardWay" ></a>
	<span style="float:left; border-top: 1px dotted #d4d4dd; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 5px;
	padding: 5px 0;
	padding-top: 5px;"></span><a style="float: right" href="#">Top</a>
	<br style="clear:both"></br>
	<h1>the Hard way</h1>
	<p>
	This way is
	If you need a deeper degree of customizations, you can use the injection mechanism based on Google Guice.
	The framework has been designed for being completly customized in every detail. All you need to do is provide a custom
	implementation for a class that implements a specific aspect; then you need to write the corresponding
	<em>bind</em> method to tell the dependency injection mechanism to use your own custom class.
	You can use the Java editor content assist to discover all bindings.
	</p>
	<p>
	<div class="image" >
	<a class="gallery" rel="prettyPhoto[all]" title="" href="images/01-guice-module-content-assistant.png">
	<img src="images/01-guice-module-content-assistant.png"
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