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The generated model code is standard Java code and can be used as such. The following demonstrates how you create objects based on the generated code.
Create a new plugin project "de.vogella.emf.webpage.usingmodel". Add the following dependency to your "plugin.xml".
Create the following class.
package de.vogella.emf.webpage.usingmodel;
import de.vogella.emf.webpage.model.webpage.MyWeb;
import de.vogella.emf.webpage.model.webpage.Webpage;
import de.vogella.emf.webpage.model.webpage.WebpageFactory;
import de.vogella.emf.webpage.model.webpage.impl.WebpagePackageImpl;
public class UsingEMFModel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
WebpagePackageImpl.init();
// Retrieve the default factory singleton
WebpageFactory factory = WebpageFactory .eINSTANCE;
// Create an instance of myWeb
MyWeb myWeb = factory.createMyWeb();
myWeb.setName("Hallo");
myWeb.setDescription("This is a description");
// Create a page
Webpage webpage = factory.createWebpage();
webpage.setTitle("This is a title");
// Add the page to myWeb
myWeb.getPages().add(webpage);
// and so on, and so on
// as you can see the EMF model can be (more or less) used as standard Java
}
}