title: Using EMF outside an Eclipse/RCP application?
body: <p>We have a J2EE application that we deploy to eg. tomcat. We use MagicDraw to model and generate our modelcode. We are currently looking at alternatives to MagicDraw.</p>
  
  <p>I have previously used EMF:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/</a></p>
  
  <p>but that was inside an RCP application (handling dependencies through P2, maven/tycho).</p>
  
  <p>Just a quick glance at the mvnrepository does not give too many results (of course we could upload necessary dependencies manually to our own )</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://mvnrepository.com/search.html?query=emf" rel="nofollow">http://mvnrepository.com/search.html?query=emf</a></p>
  
  <p>How well does EMF work in a non RCP/OSGi application and are there any examples out there to get started?</p>
  
  <p>A few resources I found:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/emf-large-scale-modeling-outside-eclipse" rel="nofollow">http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/emf-large-scale-modeling-outside-eclipse</a>
  <a href="http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t57389.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t57389.html</a></p>