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List of EMF Notification event types (event type name – int)

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Just a very quick post today, which will hopefully be useful to someone other than myself as well.

When using the org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notification interface in Eclipse GEF editors, more precisely in any extensions of Adapter or EContentAdapter (cf. respective tutorial at vogella.com) you use in EditParts, you may want to catch certain event types in your Adapter‘s notifyChanged() method.

In my case, I have an Adapter listen to model elements, and want to implement a switch statement for certain event types. I’m able to get the event type in the method via notification.getEventType() and print that to, say, System.out1, but this only gives me an int value. To be able to quickly implement the switch case for this event type, I thought it would be useful to have a list of event types and their corresponding int values. So here it is (one ordered alphabetically, and another one ordered by int value).

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Getting started with the Eclipse RCP

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Everybody has to start somewhere, and as a complete beginner in software development with Java and the Eclipse RCP, I have been, and still am, constantly on the lookout for sources of information.

The following books and websites – in my opinion – provide good starting points for people who are in the same position.

Ordered by usefulness (IMHO).

The Eclipse Book

Jeff McAffer, Jean-Michel Lemieux, Chris Aniszczyk: Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Second Edition. Boston (Addison-Wesley): May 2010. 552 pp. In English. ISBN-13: 978-0321603784.

For people who like to read books rather than websites. It is as up-to-date as can be, and is a very good and comprehensive introduction to the Eclipse RCP. Can be read back-to-back, or used as a reference. I have used this almost exclusively in my “early days” of programming with the Eclipse RCP.

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