In order to make it a bit less painless to work with Eclipse EMF (we
would have to export the plugins, restart Eclipse, etc. etc.), we start
another Eclipse in the IDE. This instance is called the
Runtime
Workbench
. Therefore select the
xpand.demo.emf.datamodel.edit
project and choose from
the context menu → .
If you are using a Mac or *nix you should now open the workspace
preference page and change the default encoding to ISO-8859-1.[4]Import the xpand.demo.emf.datamodel
project from your original workspace.[5] Note that importing the project does not physically move the
files,[6] so you can have the project be part of both workspaces at
the same time.
Create a new Xpand Project[7] called xpand.demo.emf.datamodel.generator
. Do not
choose the option "Generate a simple example".
Your Xpand project will already be configured for use of EMF models. You can check this in the project properties dialog: