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RonStein

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MDG Eclipse - a few suggestions
« on: June 10, 2007, 03:48:52 am »
Hi,
I am very happy to finally see a better integration of EA into Eclipse with V2.0 of MDG/Eclipse. In my team we are not so much interested in the round-trip part, but in having more integrated access to our models and the information in it. We generate Ecore (EMF) models from EA and use the tool chain of EMF after that.
A few recommendations for the Version 2, to make us happy:
1) a quick switch (e.g. a history) of lately opened diagrams or a full EA explorer/navigator showing all EAP files found in the workspace (of course in a tree).
2) A fast find (like the find Type for Java) would also speed up things (may be even a find class in EA and than open the Logical Models where the class resides in the EA navigator).  
3) Another idea for faster access to diagrams: Have a "My Models/My Diagrams" folder as a permanent entry in your navigator where I can put links to diagrams by drag & drop.  Save this information on the client (for the user).  
4) Allow editing of tagged values from within Eclipse, as they are the main focus for code generation or model to model transformations.
5) Could you document the types (class pathes) of Java Objects representing a EA model (and may be other elements) in your navigator. This would allow us to add our generator menus to your navigator view.
Thanks in advance for at least thinking it over.
Ronald Steinhau, Entimo AG, Berlin