Extensibility API changes

Some of the modeling platform plug-ins provided in version 6 of the Rational® UML modeling products have moved to open source and now reside in the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) and Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology (EMFT) projects. This has resulted in package namespace changes.
For API changes related to the Eclipse platform or the latest versions of EMF and GEF, see the following Eclipse Web pages:
  • Eclipse Platform: www.eclipse.org/eclipse
  • EMF: www.eclipse.org/emf
  • GEF: www.eclipse.org/gef

As a result of code moving to open source (GMF and EMFT) and some other refactoring, there are new modeling components and exposed packages containing public API. The following diagram and the associated information describe the public components and API packages in the current Rational modeling products that existed in the previous version. Some of these components will now have more extensibility APIs available.

Rational products API

The extensibility API documentation is available in the online help for the Rational modeling products, within the "Extending Rational product functionality" topics. Eclipse on-line reference material that describes the public APIs is available in the Eclipse opensource components at help.eclipse.org.


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