EMF Parsley is a lightweight framework that allows easy and quick UI development based upon EMF. EMF Parsley is built on top of the EMF Edit framework and it implements features like Trees, Forms and Table builders with standard JFace databinding, providing a complete component-based toolset. EMF Parsley can be configured to use all kinds of EMF persistence implementations (XMI, Teneo, CDO) Moreover a DSL allows to easily customize several behaviors in each component.
EMF Parsley aims to provide a complete set of components to visualize your model with the introspective EMF capabilities and can be used to easily build forms, viewers or editors.
There are some components that can be used out-of-the-box and can be considered as a reference implementation of the mechanisms that are the basis of EMF Parsley itslef.
The main feature of EMF Parsley is that you can customize all basic UI behaviours of the components with Dependency Injection mechanisms (based on Google Guice). You can get more info in the Customizations Section, but you don't have to know all details about the internal implementation to inject your own customization because EMF Parsley provides a DSL to easy customize your UI, as explained in the next section.
You can use the DSL by creating a new project with the wizard "Create a new project" -> "EMF Parsley DSL Based project"
Clicking the "Finish" button the wizard will open directly the DSL editor. You can use the content assistant to discover all features.
The DSL allows to customize the most relevant behaviors, currently the following are permitted: