EMF.Edit: An Adapters Story
2Slides: http://fr.slideshare.net/mikaelbarbero/emfedit-a-story-of-adapters
So you need to build a Java application for desktop, mobile or web? Did you already know that EMF could be helpful in many ways? It handles the burden of writing the data classes (entities) and provides RESTful serialization of this data? Yeah, that is perfectly correct. Now the remaining questions are: how does it help you with changing, or editing, your data? What is the point behind the so-called EMF.Edit framework?
During this talk, you will learn how to build the foundation for a rich client application in any widget toolkit (SWT, JavaFX...). Among other things you will learn how to customize the generated EMF editor without messing with the generated classes. You will learn how the content and label providers work under the hood to help you create your own beautiful, robust and maintainable applications. By the end of this talk you will finally untangle the Gordian knot that entangles Adapters, ItemProvider, AdapterFactory, ItemProviderAdapterFactory, AdapterFactoryLabelProvider, AdapterFactoryContentProvider, etc.
This talk is dedicated to EMF rookies who know EMF as a generator of JavaBeans on Steroids and want to know more about the steroids themselves (the Adapter framework, the ItemProvider framework and the amazing helper classes around those two).
Note: This talk is an updated version of the one that has been given to Eclipse Con North America 2014 last March in San Francisco. You will find the slides and the materials on GitHub and slideshare. This talk also is a follow-up of the talk "EMF.Edit: The Force Unleashed" which has been given at Eclipse Con North America 2013 (ranked in the top 10 of the best sessions) and at Eclipse Con Europe 2013 in an updated version.