Re: [graphiti-dev] Graphiti for JavaFX 2

["Wenz, Michael" <michael.wenz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Rainer,

thanks for these insights. Maybe we can think about how to combine efforts for this after the Juno rush?

Michael


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From: graphiti-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:graphiti-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RLA
Sent: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012 13:59
To: Discuss development topics on Graphiti
Subject: Re: [graphiti-dev] Graphiti for JavaFX 2

Dear Michael,

Thank you for your response.

Because we share a long common history with Eclipse technologies I'm 
quite aware of all the efforts required building sophisticated graphical 
editors.
Our software was always built around EMF, Graphiti came in quite handy 
to prevent us writing so much code to build an editor directly on plain 
GEF/Draw2D (We never considered GMF as valuable option).

Writing an Eclipse/EMF based editor directly on JavaFX is currently not 
an option. Therfore we would like to give Graphiti a try in this area, 
but I have to mention that our resources are limited too. That's why I 
wanted to figure out first, if there are already any findings/results 
regarding a non Draw2D approach with Graphiti.

Kind regards,
Rainer



On 30.05.2012 10:55, Wenz, Michael wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> as of today Graphiti only offers the SWT/Draw2D-based implementation. The separation of dependencies to the UI toolkit is in principle available in the Graphiti framework, but surely has some issues because of the long-lasting only dependency to GEF and the underlying technologies.
>
> I had a very brief look at JavaFX 2 and found it a promising alternative runtime for Graphiti. But currently there are no plans to migrate Graphiti to JavaFX 2 (or add it as a 2. Runtime). This is simply due to our limited team capacity and the lack of requirements in this respect.
>
> On the other hand I think this is a very interesting technology and would like to do some research with it if I find the time. But I'm afraid that time won't be that much... What are your plans in respect to JavaFX 2? Would you rather go for developing an editor directly based on that framework or do you think it would make sense to have a framework like Graphiti underneath?
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
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> Sent: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2012 06:50
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> Subject: [graphiti-dev] Graphiti for JavaFX 2
>
> Hi all,
>
> as far as I can remember one of Graphiti's feature is to separate
> dependencies to the underlying UI Toolkit. We have used the standard
> implementation for SWT/Draw2D for building our editors.
>
> We are currently considering/investigating to move some graphical
> editing to JavaFX using Graphiti. Has anybody done some reasearch in
> that area or are there already any projects initiated. If not for
> JavaFx, are there other implementations (e.g. Swing) available?
>
> Best regards,
> Rainer
>
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