GigaSystemBuilder Guide - Defining GigaSpaces Applications In Eclipse


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Chapter 4. Defining GigaSpaces Applications In Eclipse

GigaSystemsBuilder 2 supports use of the Eclipse hierarchical EMF modeller to model applications and deployed solutions.

The steps to do this are:

Create the Eclipse project for the application.
Model the application architecture, and the deployments to different platforms and configurations; this is all done in the same model.
Fill in the business logic in the implementation classes.
Generate using within-Eclipse build, or an external build
Run one of the generated deployments.

The Eclipse hierarchical EMF modeller stores the entered data in the '.osm' format - this is a GigaSpaces-specific modelling dialect. This is a very simple form of XML, and has element, attributes and nesting, just like XML written by hand. The advantage of using the OSM editor over using other XML-entry tools is that it provides a structure way of entering the data - at all points, it gives the available properties and nested elements - and guarantees the XML syntax is correct.

Even using the OSM editor, it is still possible to get semantic errors; these are picked up at build time.

4.1 Creating the Project

4.2 How To Model

4.3 Modelling Concepts

4.4 Types