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The Graphical Editor Framework (GEF)

May 10, 2005

Over Christmas 2004, I built an EMF plugin for family trees. Around Easter 2005, I finally found the time to develop a GEF-based editor for it.

Note: This article was written in 2005. For that reason, the screenshots show an older version of Eclipse.

The following screenshot shows the EMF editor for the family data.

Family tree in EMF

And here is the GEF editor.

Family tree in GEF

I originally planned to publish the code as an Eclipse plugin, but I never found the time to fully polish and complete it.

Software Engineering #eclipse #jvm #java

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