Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)

Runtime API Specification

Common Core Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.core.command	Provides a set of classes for executing, undoing and redoing units of work, known as Commands.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.core.resources
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.core.service	Provides the base interfaces for all service providers.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.core.util	Provides miscellaneous utility classes that are applicable to the modeling platform.

Common UI Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action	Provides a set of classes for defining Actions which are run in order to carry out application behaviour that the user has requested through the user-interface.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.actions	Provides a set of common action delegates and action handlers for use with the modeling platform.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.actions.global	Provides a set of common global actions and global action handlers for use with the Global Action Handler Service.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.global	Provides a set of classes for creating global actions for use with the Global Action Handler Service.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.global.providers
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.ide.actions.global	Provides a set of IDE global actions and global action handlers for use with the Global Action Handler Service.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.ide.global	Provides a class that specifies the ids of several supported IDE Global Actions.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.action.util	Provides a set of classes that help in using the modeling platform actions.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.contentassist	Provides a framework to support content assist.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.dialogs	Provides implementations of various common dialogs.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.editors
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.preferences	Provides preference page helpers, including an abstract preference page that supports context sensitive help and some field editors intended for use on preference pages.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.printing	Aurora internal packages.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.resources	Provides a framework to support Eclipse resource change events, such as those that relate to IFile and IMarker.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.action.contributionitem	Provides a set of classes that implement a Service that facilitates the contribution of actions to modeling platform workbench parts.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.action.filter	Provides a set of classes to help in evaluating expressions for Eclipse plug-in action enablement and visibility.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.action.global	Provides a set of classes that implement a Service that provides an extensible way to handle commonly used (global) actions in different views and editors.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.core	Provides core support for drag and drop.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.drag	Provides core support for the drag component of drag and drop.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.drop	Provides core support for the drop component of drag and drop.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.ide.core	Provides support for drag and drop with IDE dependencies.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.ide.drag	Provides support for dragging with IDE dependencies.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.dnd.ide.drop	Provides support for dropping with IDE dependencies.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.editor	Provides an editor service for manipulating Eclipse Editors, including an operation to open an editor from an org.eclipse.ui.IEditorInput.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.elementselection
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.icon	Provides the framework for the icon service.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.marker	Provides the Marker Navigation service, which is used to navigate to an Eclipse IMarker in an Eclipse IEditorPart.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.parser	Provides the framework for the parser service.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.properties	Provides a framework to contribute contribute property descriptors to the Eclipse property view, given a workbench selection.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.properties.descriptors	Provides a framework to contribute contribute properties to the Eclipse property view, given a workbench selection.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.properties.extended	Provides a set of classes for working with modeling platform properties.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.util
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.util	Provides miscellaneous utility classes for the platform.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.viewers

Draw2D Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.figures	Provides a set of classes that extend from the org.eclipse.draw2d hierarchies for rendering, geometric manipulation and layout of figures on the drawing surface.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.geometry	Provides a set of classes for geometric manipulation.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.mapmode	This package contains the org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.mapmode.MapMode class.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render	This package contains the default interfaces for defining and using a RenderedImage.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.factory	Contains the factory class and supporting classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.draw2d.ui.render.figures	All IFigure implementors that depend on the RenderedImage interface reside in this package.

EMF Modeling Services Layer Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.commands.core.command	Specification of the command API for operations that modify EMF models.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.commands.core.commands	A collection of concrete (or at least partially realized) commands that may be reused by any MSL client application.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.core
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.core.clipboard	MSL extensions to the clipboard copy/paste framework.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.core.resources	GMF resource API.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.core.util	Miscellaneous utility classes for working with MSL-managed resources, objects, and meta-models.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.ui	Provides UI-related classes that use the ElementTypeRegistry.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.action	Extension to the Common UI action API to support actions that operate on MSL-managed models.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.dialogs	Reusable dialogs providing support for working with MSL models, such as browsing for and selecting elements.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.preferences	Implementation of preference pages controlling the GMF EMF UI plug-in's UI interaction with the user.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.actions	Actions for showing property pages and other properties-related operations.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.commands	Reusable commands for use in implementing property editors.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.descriptors	Composite property descriptors for EMF property sources.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.providers	Defines a generic, MSL-based properties provider for EMF.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.sections	Classes for use in defining property editors to compose sections of the properties view.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.properties.util	Miscellaneous utility classes for re-use in implementing property editors, actions, etc.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.providers.marker	Extension of the Common UI marker-navigation provider API that supports navigation to elements within MSL-managed models.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.services.action	Extension of the Common UI action filter framework for filters that need to test elements of MSL-managed models.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.services.modelingassistant	The Modeling Assistant Service provides an extensible algorithm for offering users easy access to the most common editing gestures in a particular context of model elements and/or diagrams.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.ui.services.parser	MSL-specific extensions to the common parser service.

EMF Clipboard Support Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.clipboard.core

API for clipboard-oriented copy/paste services that are customizable for metamodel-specific semantics.

EMF Element Type Framework Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core	This package contains the classes that define primary classes in the Element Type framework.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core.commands	Provides a set of commands that are used to edit model elements.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core.edithelper	Provides the edit helper and edit helper advice for the Element Type framework.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.emf.type.core.requests	Provides a set of requests that are used to ask for commands to edit model elements.

GEF Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.gef.ui.figures

Provides a set of classes that extend from the org.eclipse.draw2d hierarchies for rendering, geometric manipulation and layout of figures on the drawing surface.

Diagram Core Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.commands	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package contains all the supported commands by the diagram layer
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.edithelpers	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package contains classes used to help in create the element requests
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.listener	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package contains classes related to the listening and Notifying capabilities provided by the diagram layer
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.preferences
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.providers
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.services
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.services.view	Aurora internal packages Package Specification Provides a set of classes to use when creating views.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.util	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains utility classes used by this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.core.view.factories	Aurora internal packages Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content

Diagram Notation Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.notation	Notation meta-model primary package.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.notation.datatype	Aurora internal packages Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.notation.impl	Aurora internal packages Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content

Diagram UI Packages

org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the necessary plugin classes: DebugOptions Plugin StatusCodes
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.actions	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the necessary plugin classes: DebugOptions Plugin StatusCodes
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.commands	Aurora internal packages Package Specification Diagram ui commands
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.dialogs.sortfilter	Aurora internal packages Package Specification dialogs for the sort filter
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.dnd.parts	Aurora internal packages Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.editparts	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the edit part classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.editpolicies	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the edit policy classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.figures	Aurora internal packages Package Specification the figures package
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.handles	Aurora internal packages Package Specification handles and handle locator package
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.image	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package contains classes related to the imge support
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.l10n	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains classes to manage the string, image, font and cursor resources for this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.layout
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.menus	High level UI menus intended for the diagram surface.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.parts	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package sontains the editors and the editing domain
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.preferences
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.actions	Package Specification This package contains a set of classes for defining Actions which are run in order to carry out application behaviour that the user has requested through the user-interface.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.providers
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.render.actions	Package Specification This package contains printing actions or action helpers.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.render.providers	Package Specification This package contains the service provider classes for this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.render.util	Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.printing.util	Package Specification This package contains utility classes used by this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.descriptors	Aurora internal packages Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.filters	Aurora internal packages.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.providers	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the service provider classes for this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.sections	Aurora internal packages.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.sections.appearance
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.sections.grid
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.properties.views	Aurora internal packages.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.providers	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the necessary plugin classes: DebugOptions Plugin StatusCodes
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.providers.ide.providers	This package contains a contribution item provider and a global action handler and provider for diagram IDE Global Actions.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.render.actions
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.render.clipboard	Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.render.editparts	Package Specification This package contains the edit part classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.render.providers	Package Specification This package contains the service provider classes for this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.render.util	Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.requests	Aurora internal packages Package Specification thispackage contains the supported request classes
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.document
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.ide.document
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.ide.editor
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.ide.util	This package contains utility classes used by this plugin which have IDE dependencies.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.ide.wizards	Package Specification ToDo: Fill in specific content
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.parts
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.resources.editor.util
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.services.decorator	Aurora internal packages Package Specification this package contains the decorator specific classes like the provider, operation and the decorator itself
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.services.editpart	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the edit part classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.services.editpolicy	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the edit policy classes.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.services.layout	Aurora internal packages Package Specification Lauout specific classes either operations or types
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.services.palette	Aurora internal packages Package Specification contains the palette service and the palette type
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.tools	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the creation tool specific classes, they could create Notation views or Semantic elemetn sor both
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.util	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains utility classes used by this plugin.
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.view.factories	Aurora internal packages Package Specification This package contains the Notation meta model View Factories.