Ed Merks is a co-lead of the top-level Eclipse Modeling project as well as the lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project. He has many years of in-depth experience in the design and implementation of languages, frameworks, and application development environments. He holds a Ph.D. in computing science and is a co-author of the authoritative "Eclipse Modeling Framework, A Developer's Guide" (Addison-Wesley 2003). He works for IBM Rational at the Toronto Lab.
In answer to the question "Where are the high-level Open Source design tools
for Java?" I believe that they're emerging from efforts at Eclipse.org. These
efforts began with the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) in 2002, and have
been building momentum ever since, with the addition of the UML2 project, the
Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF), the Generative Modeling Tools (GMT)
Project, and Model Driven Data Integration (MDDl). More recently, with the
creation of the new top-level Eclipse Modeling Project
(www.eclipse.org/modeling) to act as a home and focal point for all of these
modeling related technologies, there is clearly an ever-growing focus in this
area. So what does it all mean and what's behind the acronyms?
The focus of the Modeling Project is on bridging the
design-versus-development gap using a bottom-up approach. We're building
practical development to... (more)
Ed Merks is a co-lead of the top-level Eclipse Modeling project as well as the lead of the Eclipse Modeling Framework project. He has many years of in-depth experience in the design and implementation of languages, frameworks, and application development environments. He holds a Ph.D. in computing science and is a co-author of the authoritative "Eclipse Modeling Framework, A Developer's Guide" (Addison-Wesley 2003). He works for IBM Rational at the Toronto Lab.
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