3.7 Summary
This chapter explored the capabilities of EMF as the means of describing our DSL abstract syntax. Although we leave the details of EMF to its own book, we covered enough to get started developing our sample projects. The benefits of leveraging a common underlying metamodel and generation capabilities should become clear as we continue to develop the DSL projects.
At this point, we have starter domain models for our fictitious ERP, plus a reference to a fifth oocore DSL. We now move on to describing how to create graphical concrete syntax for those we want to provide diagrams for, understanding that we will most likely revisit and enhance the EMF models we created in this chapter.