GEF

EMF Constituents

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

GEF is not actually a part of EMF, however it is employed by its code generator to implement the default (simple) model editor. It is often used by Eclipse plug-in developers to implement graphical tools within the Eclipse.