This tutorial will be all about the Eclipse Modeling Framework, one of the core technologies in the Eclipse universe. You will learn what metamodels are and how to create them, how to generate an editor for instances of your metamodels, and how to load and save such instances. All of this just goes to teach you all you need to know for the final step, which will be to think about, design, and implement a metamodel for Turing Machines. Once you're done with this tutorial, you will have an application that looks something like this:

• Preliminaries
  • Required Software
  • Finding Documentation

Preliminaries

Required Software

Your Eclipse installation already has everything we need for this tutorial. In fact, that's one reason why we suggested you install the Eclipse Modeling Tools.

Finding Documentation