What is EMF?

EMF Evolution

• initially based on OMG MOF 1.0 specification, i.e. metamodeling
• has influenced MOF 2.0 specification
• EMF 2.0 claims support Essential MOF (EMOF)

EMF Constituents

• EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework
  • Ecore - the meta model - represents EMF models
  • Core model - a concrete EMF model
  • Genmodel - model for code generator
    (decorator pattern applied to the core model)
  • JET - Java Emitter Templates
  • JMerge - round-trip support for Java
• GEF - Graphical Editing Framework

(from the EMF Book)