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You may want to download the slides of the presentation explaining the basic concepts you will explore in this tutorial.

Preliminaries

The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) belongs to the most important technologies in the Eclipse world. One of the more recent indicators of this is its being used to describe the very foundation of Eclipse 4 (or e4, which of course sounds way cooler) applications: the application model. We might come back to the application model in the project phase of our practical. Another indication is that EMF has come to be the foundation of most other modeling-related Eclipse projects. Thus, there is important stuff to be learned in this tutorial!

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