Graphical Editing Framework and the Eclipse Modeling Framework Understanding the GEF and EMF frameworks Developing with GEF and EMF Code examples 1 What is the Eclipse Modeling Framework? Application development generally starts with consideration of the design model, then moves to more user interface oriented tasks. The Eclipse Modeling Framework is designed to ease the design and implementation of a structured model. The Java framework provides a code generation facility in order to keep the focus on the model itself and not on its implementation details. The key concepts underlying the framework are: meta-data, code generation, and default serialization.

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