Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) - Tutorial #
This tutorial describes the usage of Eclipse EMF, a framework for modeling your data model and creating Java code from it.
Based on: Lars Vogel (c) 2007, 2016 vogella GmbH Version 3.6, 06.07.2016
This tutorial has been tested with Eclipse Modeling Tools 2025-03. Some screen captures might be from older versions of Eclipse.
Video Tutorials #
See the YouTube playlist for all videos.
Chage Log #
Selection of materials and updates
- 26.04.2025 by Soaibuzzaman
- Migrated tutorial to web format and updated to Eclipse 2025-03 Modeling Tools
- 04.05.2023 by Jan O. Ringert
- Added minor adjustments for Eclipse 2023-03 Modeling Tools
- 29.04.2022 by Jan O. Ringert
- Added videos of the latest version of Eclipse 2022-03 Modeling Tools
- 28.04.2022 by Jan O. Ringert
- Changed version to Eclipse 2022-03 Modeling Tools
- 21.02.2021 by Jan O. Ringert
- Added warning in Section 14.3 about editing the Class Diagram after OCL invariants were added
- 09.02.2021 by Jan O. Ringert
- Added Section 14 about OCL in Ecore
- 02.02.2021 by Jan O. Ringert
- Updated Sect. 2, 3, and 4 with some latest screen captures from Eclipse 2020-12
- 25.01.2021 by Jan O. Ringert
- Updated version of Eclipse
- Replaced video links
- 06.02.2020 by Jan O. Ringert (thanks to Kamil Poltorak)
- Setting title of myWeb in Sect. 5 code
- Documentation updated in Sect. 7 (picture and text)
- 16.01.2020 by Jan O. Ringert
- Changed Eclipse version to 2019-06
- 08.02.2019 by Jan O. Ringert
- Added videos to Sect. 4, 5, 6, and 13
- 30.01.2019 by Jan O. Ringert
- Fixed code example in Sect. 6.2
- Added screen capture of dependencies to Sect. 6
- Completely rewritten code in Sect. 13
- 23.01.2019 by Jan O. Ringert
- stressed need to select Containment in Sect. 3.1
- changed “My Web” to “Web” in Sect. 5
- 18.01.2019 by Jan O. Ringert
- Made package names more consistent across tutorial and code examples
- Updated code examples and text to use Web instead of MyWeb (inconsistent throughout tutorial)