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* Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework
* Runtime is an application framework for creating graphical editors using EMF and GEF. It aims to provide a '''generative''' bridge between EMF and GEF.
* It is a powerful and widely-used framework for implementing graphical editors for EMF-based modelling languages.
* For e.g UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML models.
* GMF Tooling Workflow:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/5/59/Overview.png
* Core to GMF is the concept of a graphical definition model. (.gmfgraph) This model contains information related to the graphical elements that will appear in a GEF-based runtime, but have no direct connection to the domain models for which they will provide representation and editing.
* An optional tooling definition model is used to design the palette and other periphery (menus, toolbars, etc.). (.gmftool)
* A goal of GMF is to allow the graphical definition to be reused for several domains. This is achieved by using a separate mapping model to link the graphical and tooling definitions to the selected domain model(s). (.gmfmap)
* Once the appropriate mappings are defined, GMF provides a generator model to allow implementation details to be defined for the generation phase. (.gmfgen)

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