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 :

A sample of result obtained by editing a real example; the org.objectweb.fractal.adl.BasicLoader Fractal ADL definition :

Preview of the next release

The next version of F4E that is coming soon, the main changes of this next release will be to revert bindings as links, and support merged informations displaying in the EMF and GMF editors.

Merged informations are displayed in gray, not editable and are computed on fly and updated each time a modification impact merged informations. Merged bindings are dotted.

F4E has now a official logo.

A touch of Gimp, and the logo was born.

Fix Release, Java 1.5 Support.

The dependency to Java 1.6 for the diagram and the notation plug-ins have been removed, so F4E can now be used with Java 1.5.

New Release F4E 1.0.3

A new release of F4E is available at http://fractal.objectweb.org/f4e/update-site/ .
This new version has a graphical editor based on GMF for Fractal ADL files.

For each Fractal ADL file edited with the graphical editor a file with the same
name except the .fractald extension, is created in order to store graphical informations.

F4E blog creation