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<h3>Primary Links</h3>
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		<strong>Download</strong> Eclipse Distribution, Update Site, Dropins </a>
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		title="Documentation"> <strong>Documentation</strong> Tutorials, Examples, Videos, Reference Documentation </a>
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	<li><a id="buttonSupport"
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		Bug Tracker, Newsgroup, Professional Support </a>
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<h3>EGF: a Software Factory Tool</h3>
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	<p>EGF (Eclipse Generation Factories) is a software factory tool with the purpose to generate software artifacts, such as code or application.</p>
	<p>A major concern in software engineering is to deliver on time with the expected level of quality, 
		while requirements and development environments evolve and are more and more complex. 
		In order to meet those needs, the generative technique is a means which avoids wasting time and efforts.</p> 
	<p>	The purpose of EGF is to provide an extensible model-based generation framework in order to automate software production.
		It provides the support to define and customize software factories.</p>
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		    	    <li>Software production with factory components</li>
		        	<li>Reuse of off-the-shelf factory components</li>
			        <li>Development by assembly</li>
		    	    <li>Customization in a specific context</li>
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		<th><a title="Introduction" href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/6/66/EGF_Introduction.pdf">
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		<th><strong>&nbsp;Introduction [Presentation]</strong></th>
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    <p>EGF is an engine based on four types of generation unit: factory component, task, pattern and generation chain.</p>
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	<h3>Software Factories Portfolios</h3>
    <p>A software factory portfolio provides an off-the-shelf generation solution. EGF is released with two <a ref="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGF/Portfolio">portfolios</a>: 
        <ul>
            <li><a ref="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGF/Portfolio/EMF">Enhanced EMF Generation</a>: 1) it enriches the EMF generation with new generation topics (e.g., html doc, ecoretools diagrams, Java doc), 2) it opens the EMF Generation customization with the EGF patterns</li>
            <li><a ref="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGF/Portfolio/Build">Build chain editor and generator</a>: it provides 1) an editor to model a build chain for continuous integration, and 2) a generator with targets, by default, Hudson/jenkins and Buckminster</li>
        </ul>
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		<th><a title="Generation Chain" href="http://vimeo.com/29472598">
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			</a></th>
		<th><p>Video: <strong>&nbsp;Generation Chain</strong></p>
			<p>Coming soon: video on the enhancement of the EMF generation</p>
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	<h3>Activity Workflow</h3>
	<p>The EGF infrastructure does not strictly reduce EGF to generation. 
	Software production includes related generation activities, such as the creation of the generation environment. 
	As a consequence, EGF can just be used for its <b>activity workflow</b> 
	(contained in a factory component) 
	which enables to combine activities written in one or several different languages. Java and Ruby are the two languages supported today.</p>
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		<th><a title="Activity Workflow With Java and Ruby" href="http://vimeo.com/15705526">
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		<th><p>Video: <strong>&nbsp;Activity Workflow combining Java and JRuby</strong></p>
			<p>Example of dynamic execution</p>
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