Section: New Software and Platforms

EMF-REST

URL: http://emf-rest.com/

EMF is the modeling framework of the Eclipse community. While EMF is able to automatically generate Java APIs from Ecore models, it is still missing support to deal with Web APIs such as RESTful ones that could boost the use of modeling techniques in the Web. However, the creation of RESTful APIs requires from developers not only an investment in implementation but also a good understanding of the REST Principles to apply them correctly. We therefore created EMF-REST, a tool that empowers EMF to get Truly RESTFul APIs from Ecore models, thus allowing web developers to generate JSON-based Web APIs for their applications. It generates both a JavaScript API to work with models as Javascript Objects in the client-side (without any EMF dependency) and REST services in the server-side based on the Java JAX-RS specification.