Gradient

Galileo comes with a upgraded version of SWT that allows to easily use gradient with complex figures, so the next release of F4E will have a enhanced graphical design.

Fractal XML editor

A preview of the Fractal XML editor that is planned to be published in the next release:

Frascati Explorer architecture ~100 components

A crude view of the Frascati Explorer architecture.

Everybody likes Colors

In the next release it will be possible to use the default GMF color tool
to customize the interface and components colors.
Note also that transparency has been set for bindings that allows to see interfaces labels.

Some architectures

Comanche architecture:
CeciliaLoader architecture:
(the node-merger is missing)

Completion improvement

Some help is now available in the EMF tree to extend a Fractal definition, to chose the signature of a interface or the java class of a content.

For example if you click on the 'extends' property of a Fractal definition, you can
directly type the name of the Fractal definitions you want to extend, or you can click on the right (...) button which raise a dialog box that allows to brose and select the Fractal definitions.

You can do the same think for the content class :

but also for the Fractal interface signature and the binding client and server interfaces.

Hulotte Factory architecture ~50 components

Hulotte is a framework to generate applications based on components.

I've tested to display the Hulotte factory architecture, which has around 50 components, with the lastest version of F4E, the components arrangement is the default one used by GMF :


A bigger one using "save as image" gmf feature, as you can I have little bugs to fix merged bindings are not dotted, and containing definition is not displayed :