I am making an Eclipse product which contains the Xtext plugin.I followed this tutorial https://kthoms.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/setting-up-a-rcp-product-for-a-dsl/ and I made a running product.
I created a platform runtime feature with the "needed" plugins. Most plugins are useless and I remove them one by one. But I can't remove Java from the RCP application and some others useless plugins.
When I tried to remove jdt, for example, Xtext doesn't work anymore.
How can I remove Java from the application? Is it implement by a plugin?
Thank you for your help guys :)
If you want to remove something from platform, you can use "activities".
Open your plugin.xml, Extensions tab then add the extension org.eclipse.ui.activities
Create an activitypatternbinding child as the extension, give it an ID of your choice, then fill the pattern attribute with the eclipse id of the element you want to hide. If you want to hide java perspective, this should be something like org.eclipse.jdt.ui.JavaPerspective.
More infos here and here
There are occasions when there is some code in a file that does not have any extension. Such files will have code written in a single language, but each such file may be written using a different language (like C, C++, assembly language, wiki markup, and HTML for example). Similarly, the problem also happens when there is a common extension in the file name, but different files use different programming languages.
The problem I want to solve is to avoid making each individual developer that has checked out a workspace from having to figure out what kind of file a source file is (there is either no extension, or the extension does not imply the source language used). To do so, the author of the file has the responsibility of putting the right magic in the file to let the file be opened properly. Since Eclipse has the ability to disable the formatter based on some embedded text in the file, I thought it should be possible to specify the file type as well. The Open With feature allows an individual developer to change how a file is interpreted, but must be done again each time a new workspace is checked out.
In Emacs or Vim, I can place magic strings at the top of the file to indicate how I want the file to be rendered within the editor. For example:
/* -*- c++ -*- */
/* vim: set ft=cpp: */
Is there some equivalent magic for Eclipse? My attempts at finding a solution constantly pointed out how to disable the formatter. Clearly, my inexperience with Eclipse is capping my Google-Fu.
If there is no file extension, then things are a little harder. Instead of double-clicking to open the file, right-click -> Open with... -> other -> C++ editor. This will remember your choice for that file only.
ref:Quick way to set custom syntax highlighting in Eclipse
Of all the free plugins providing Vim functionality within Eclipse that are available as of 8 November 2013, namely
Vrapper
ViPlugin
Vimplugin
Eclim
...none seem to support modelines. Nevertheless, a Vrapper user asked more than a year ago if such support existed.
Note that Eclim is a special case. It might solve your problem since it allows you to use Vim as an embedded Eclipse editor. However, from within the Vim instance, Eclipse's key bindings will not work. I guess it's a trade-off between access to features and convenience. From Eclim's website:
Please be aware that the embedded vim does not behave like a standard
eclipse editor. It's a separate program (vim) embedded into eclipse,
so eclipse features are provided by eclim's vim plugins and not the
usual eclipse key bindings, context menus, etc. For those that just
want vim like key bindings in their eclipse editors, vrapper is an
excellent alternative which provides exactly that.
There used to be a commercial plugin called Viable but development seems to have stalled since 2011. Also, some users report that it breaks under Juno.
Finally, although your question is about Eclipse, it turns out NetBeans does have a plugin that supports modelines. It's called jVi. Another plugin for Netbeans is VIEX, in case you're interested.
Hope that helps!
Sources:
What vim plugins are available for Eclipse?
What are some good plugins for developing Java in VIM?
I'm not aware of any Eclipse plugin able to deal with vim-style modelines. However, AnyEdit gives you a pretty precise control over tab size and related prefs. And you can always search the marketplace.
I use Eclipse Sapphire to create editors for specific XML files. I have multiple editors for multiple XML files, in a single application using RCP.
What I need is to migrate from Eclipse RCP to Netbeans Platform. The only problem I have is to find a competitive alternative to Sapphire in Netbeans.
After searching I found Binding Beans but I'm not sure it can totally replace it. Any ideas?
Sapphire aims to raise UI writing to a higher level of abstraction.
The core premise is that the basic building block of UI should not be
a widget (text box, label, button, etc.), but rather a property
editor.
A bit at a lower level, but note that the JavaBeans specification also has support for PropertyEditors:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/beans/PropertyEditor.html
Have a look at the java.beans package to see what's provided by the JDK:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/beans/package-summary.html
I'm new to Papyrus UML in Eclipse. I'm trying to make a class diagram of classes that also use standard Java classes (e.g. java.awt.Point). So for example: Class Tracker has a property Point location. However, if I click the property location, I cannot set its type to any standard Java class.
I tried Import from registered library but there are no options that include the standard Java packages.
How can I use these standard classes in my class diagram?
Some Papyrus/Java lover should write the core java profile and donate it to the papyrus project.
You can not use Papyrus with Java existing java code. Usually you model then generate a java code from the model.
You can try the reverse engineering feature but it would create model which is now not related to your existing java class.
The only solution I see is to use live code and model synchronization UML tool.
After much searching, i found a way..
Simply download the Java Core (JCL) API UML file I made here:
https://mega.nz/#!qVdAAAIL!gWstAOCyQFWVHTqxVrgnYssiOJZSAEN-rbxMIaZzMJo
And use the model->import->import package from user model functionality in papyrus in eclipse
Then you can use standard java library types outside of just primitives in your papyrus UML diagram.
I've tested this with the code generator and it works with one caveat, you end up with an extra local copy of the standard library packages in the generated project. Simply delete these and you can move on with your day. I'm not sure, but eclipse payprus codegen doesn't currently seem to generate the imports necessary, so you'll have to do that manually or let the IDE do it for you, but it sure beats having placeholder types.
If you're wondering how this was done, I used the following plugin:
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/jar2uml
To generate a UML file for the standard library jar file version 1.8, this is usually under the jre installation directory inside the lib folder.
This gave me a model with all the standard library packages within it, but the model was named rt.java.* instead of java.* which messed with the code generation process. So i simply removed the other packages other than java.* and made java the model itself instead of a package.
There is a java profile and library/package in Papyrus Software Designer extention.
You may install it via the market place.
See also: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Java_Code_Generation
How can I generate UML diagrams (especially sequence diagrams) from existing Java code?
ObjectAid UML Explorer
Is what I used. It is easily installed from the repository:
Name: ObjectAid UML Explorer
Location: http://www.objectaid.com/update/current
And produces quite nice UML diagrams:
Description from the website:
The ObjectAid UML Explorer is different from other UML tools. It uses
the UML notation to show a graphical representation of existing code
that is as accurate and up-to-date as your text editor, while being
very easy to use. Several unique features make this possible:
Your source code and libraries are the model that is displayed, they are not reverse engineered into a different format.
If you update your code in Eclipse, your diagram is updated as well; there is no need to reverse engineer source code.
Refactoring updates your diagram as well as your source code. When you rename a field or move a class, your diagram simply reflects the
changes without going out of sync.
All diagrams in your Eclipse workspace are updated with refactoring changes as appropriate. If necessary, they are checked out of your
version control system.
Diagrams are fully integrated into the Eclipse IDE. You can drag Java classes from any other view onto the diagram, and diagram-related
information is shown in other views wherever applicable.
EDIT:
If you're a designer then Papyrus is your best choice it's very advanced and full of features, but if you just want to sketch out some UML diagrams and easy installation then ObjectAid is pretty cool and it doesn't require any plugins I just installed it over Eclipse-Java EE and works great !.
UPDATE Oct 11th, 2013
My original post was in June 2012 a lot of things have changed many tools has grown and others didn't. Since I'm going back to do some modeling and also getting some replies to the post I decided to install papyrus again and will investigate other possible UML modeling solutions again. UML generation (with synchronization feature) is really important not to software designer but to the average developer.
I wish papyrus had straightforward way to Reverse Engineer classes into UML class diagram and It would be super cool if that reverse engineering had a synchronization feature, but unfortunately papyrus project is full of features and I think developers there have already much at hand since also many actions you do over papyrus might not give you any response and just nothing happens but that's out of this question scope anyway.
The Answer (Oct 11th, 2013)
Tools
Download Papyrus
Go to Help -> Install New Software...
In the Work with: drop-down, select --All Available Sites--
In the filter, type in Papyrus
After installation finishes restart Eclipse
Repeat steps 1-3 and this time, install Modisco
Steps
In your java project (assume it's called MyProject) create a folder e.g UML
Right click over the project name -> Discovery -> Discoverer -> Discover Java and inventory model from java project, a file called MyProject_kdm.xmi will be generated.
Right click project name file --> new --> papyrus model -> and call it MyProject.
Move the three generated files MyProject.di , MyProject.notation, MyProject.uml to the UML folder
Right click on MyProject_kdm.xmi -> Discovery -> Discoverer -> Discover UML model from KDM code again you'll get a property dialog set the serialization prop to TRUE to generate a file named MyProject.uml
Move generated MyProject.uml which was generated at root, to UML folder, Eclipse will ask you If you wanted to replace it click yes. What we did in here was that we replaced an empty model with a generated one.
ALT+W -> show view -> papyrus -> model explorer
In that view, you'll find your classes like in the picture
In the view Right click root model -> New diagram
Then start grabbing classes to the diagram from the view
Some features
To show the class elements (variables, functions etc) Right click on any class -> Filters -> show/hide contents Voila !!
You can have default friendly color settings from Window -> pereferences -> papyrus -> class diagram
one very important setting is Arrange when you drop the classes they get a cramped right click on any empty space at a class diagram and click Arrange All
Arrows in the model explorer view can be grabbed to the diagram to show generalization, realization etc
After all of that your settings will show diagrams like
Synchronization isn't available as far as I know you'll need to manually import any new classes.
That's all, And don't buy commercial products unless you really need it, papyrus is actually great and sophisticated instead donate or something.
Disclaimer: I've no relation to the papyrus people, in fact, I didn't like papyrus at first until I did lots of research and experienced it with some patience. And will get back to this post again when I try other free tools.
What is your codebase? Java or C++?
eUML2 for Java is a powerful UML modeler designed for Java developper
in Eclipse. The free edition can be used for commercial use. It
supports the following features:
CVS and Team Support
Designed for large project with multiple and customizable model views
Helios Compliant
Real-time code/model synchronization
UML2.1 compliant and support of OMG XMI
JDK 1.4 and 1.5 support
The commercial edition provides:
Advanced reversed engineering
Powerful true dependency analyze tools
UML Profile and MDD
Database tools
Customizable template support
I am one of the authors, so the answer can be biased. It is open-source (Apache 2.0), but the plugin is not free. You don't have to pay (obviously) if you clone and build it locally.
On Intellij IDEA, ZenUML can generate sequence diagram from Java code.
Check it out at https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12437-zenuml-support
Source code: https://github.com/ZenUml/jetbrains-zenuml
How about PlantUML?
It's not for reverse engineering!!! It's for engineering before you code.
I developed a maven plugin that can both, be run from CLI as a plugin goal, or import as dependency and programmatically use the parser, #see Main#main() to get the idea on how.
It renders PlantUML src code of desired packages recursively that you can edit manually if needed (hopefully you won't). Then, by pasting the code in the plantUML page, or by downloading plant's jar you can render the UML diagram as a png image.
Check it out here https://github.com/juanmf/Java2PlantUML
Example output diagram:
Any contribution is more than welcome. It has a set of filters that customize output but I didn't expose these yet in the plugin CLI params.
It's important to note that it's not limited to your *.java files, it can render UML diagrams src from you maven dependencies as well. This is very handy to understand libraries you depend on. It actually inspects compiled classes with reflection so no source needed
Be the 1st to star it at GitHub :P
I would recommend EclipseUML from Omondo for general usage, although I did experience some problems a few months back, with my web projects. They had a free edition at one point in time, but that is supposedly no longer promoted.
If you are really keen on reverse engineering sequence diagrams from source code, I would recommend jTracert.
As far as Eclipse projects themselves are concerned, the Eclipse UML2 Tools project might support reverse engineering, although I've have never seen its use in practice.
The MoDisco (Model Discovery) project Eclipse GMT project seems to be clearer in achieving your objective. The list of technology specific tools would be a good place to start with.
I found Green plugin very simple to use and to generate class diagram from source code.
Give it a try :).
Just copy the plugin to your plugin dir.
Using IntelliJ IDEA. To generate class diagram select package and press Ctrl + Alt + U:
By default, it displays only class names and not all dependencies. To change it: right click -> Show Categories... and Show dependencies:
To genarate dependencies diagram (UML Deployment diagram) and you use maven go View -> Tool Windows -> Maven Projects and press Ctrl + Alt + U:
The result:
Also it is possible to generate more others diagrams. See documentation.
You could also give the netbeans UML modeller a try. I have used it to generate javacode that I used in my eclipse projects. You can even import eclipse projects in netbeans and keep the eclipse settings synced with the netbeans project settings.
I tried several UML modellers for eclipse and wasn't satisfied with them. They were either unstable, complicated or just plain ugly. ;-)
You can use the 30 days evaluation build of EclipseUML for Eclipse 3.5 : http://www.uml2.org/eclipse-java-galileo-SR2-win32_eclipseUML2.2_package_may2010.zip
This is not the latest 3.6 build, but is pretty good and don't require you purchase it for testing and reverse engineering.
Reverse engineering : http://www.forum-omondo.com/documentation_eclipseuml_2008/reverse/reverse/reverse_engineering_example.html
Live flash demo: http://www.ejb3.org/reverse.swf
EclipseUML Omondo is the best tool in the world for Java. Only eUML seems to compete with it on this live java synchronization market, but eUML adds model tags in the code which is really very very bad and a definitive no go for me.
I've noticed SequenceDiagram plugin for Intellij is also a good option.
By far the best tool I have used for reverse engineering, and round tripping java -> UML is Borland's Together. It is based on Eclipse (not just a single plugin) and really works well.
Another modelling tool for Java is (my) website GitUML.
Generate UML diagrams from Java or Python code stored in GitHub repositories.
One key idea with GitUML is to address one of the problems with "documentation": that diagrams are always out of date. With GitUML, diagrams automatically update when you push code using git.
Browse through community UML diagrams, there are some Java design patterns there. Surf through popular GitHub repositories and visualise the architectures and patterns in them.
Create diagrams using point and click. There is no drag drop editor, just click on the classes in the repository tree that you want to visualise:
The underlying technology is PlantUML based, which means you can refine your diagrams with additional PlantUML markup.
There is a Free tool named binarydoc which can generate UML Sequence Diagram, or Control Flow Graph (CFG) from the bytecode (instead of source code) of a Java method.
Here is an sample diagram binarydoc generated for the java method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:
Control Flow Graph of method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:
UML Sequence Diagram of method java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.getInputStream:
I suggest PlantUML. this tools is very usefull and easy to use. PlantUML have a plugin for Netbeans that you can create UML diagram from your java code.
you can install PlantUML plugin in the netbeans by this method:
Netbeans Menu -> Tools -> Plugin
Now select Available Plugins and then find PlantUML and install it.
For more information go to website: www.plantuml.com