Viewpoint Developer Manual

This document gives an overview of the internals of the Viewpoint platform, and describes the main APIs and extension points.

• Architecture and Concepts describes the general architecture of the system, the main concepts and top-level entry points in the APIs.
• Meta-models gives a high-level description of the various meta-models used internally by Viewpoint, to represent both VSMs and representation files.
• The Viewpoint platform is extensible, and the next sections describe some common extension scenarios:
  • Integration with Product Life Cycle Management
  • Deploy a Modeler Description File
  • Provide custom save dialog
  • Provide custom arrange-all
  • Provide custom style
  • Provide tab-bar extensions
  • Provide custom diagram header
  • Provide custom representation files migration
  • Provide custom repair participant
• The new collaborative modeling support offers some specific APIs:
  • Collaborative API Overview
  • Common Collaborative Use Cases
  • Advanced Collaborative Use Cases
  • Migrate your meta-models to CDO Native
  • Collaborative mode FAQ
• Finally, the complete JavaDoc of all the public APIs is also available for reference.