Chapter 2. Introducing EMF
Simply put, the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a modeling framework that exploits the facilities provided by Eclipse. By now, you probably know what Eclipse is, given that you either just read Chapter 1, or you skipped it, presumably because you already knew what it was. You also probably know what a framework is, because you know what Eclipse is, and Eclipse is itself a framework. So, to understand what EMF really is, all you need to know is one more thing: What is a model? Or better yet, what do we mean by a model?
If you’re familiar with things like class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, state diagrams, and so on, you’re probably thinking that a model is a set of those things, probably defined using Unified ...
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