| chapter:Introduction[Introduction] |
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| 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). |
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| 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 link[http://code.google.com/p/google-guice][Google Guice]). |
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| You can use e[Emf Parsley] basically in 2 ways the easy and the hard one! |
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| section:CustomizationsTheEasyWay[Customizations: the Easy way] |
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| The framework provides a DSL that allows to customize the most relevant behaviors. |
| You can use the DSL by creating a new project with the wizard "Create a new project" -> "EMF Parsley DSL Based project" |
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| img[images/01-new-project-dsl-wizard.png][][ ][] |
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| Clicking the "Finish" button the wizard will open directly the dsl editor. You can use the content assistant |
| to discover all features. |
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| img[images/01-dsl-content-assistant.png][][ ][] |
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| section:CustomitationsTheHardWay[Customizations: the Hard way] |
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| 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 |
| e[bind] 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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| img[images/01-guice-module-content-assistant.png][][ ][] |
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