Diagrams and visual languages are a great thing, but getting the layout just right for them to be easily understandable can be tedious and time-consuming. The Eclipse Layout Kernel provides a number of layout algorithms as well as an Eclipse-based infrastructure to connect them to editors and viewers. The layout algorithms are plain Java and can thus also be used outside of Eclipse.
The repository's structure is pretty straightforward. We only have a few folders:
build: Contains all the files necessary to build ELK in all its different forms.config: Contains configuration files, such as our Checkstyle configuration.features: Contains all the Eclipse features ELK consists of.plugins: Contains all the plugins ELK consists of.setups: Contains our Oomph setup files.
ELK is built using Maven.
To build the update site,
simply navigate to the build folder
and type:
mvn clean package
There are more build profiles available
that are defined and documented in build/pom.xml.