The Gaphor Technical Documentation

This documentation is aimed at those who would be interested in making contributions to Gaphor. For tutorials and how-to information, please visit the Gaphor Website.

In the future, we would like to split the documentation in to sections that focus on explanation (understanding-oriented) and reference (information-oriented). For now, this information is all together.

If you’re into writing plug-ins for Gaphor you should have a look at our fabulous Hello world plug-in.

Setting up a development environment, and packaging Gaphor on different platforms:

Installation

• Gaphor on Linux
• Gaphor on macOS
• Gaphor on Windows

Concepts

• Framework
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Event System
• Modeling Languages
• Style Sheets
• Transaction support
• Items and Elements

UML and data model

• UML and SysML Data Model
• Stereotypes
• Data Model
• Connection Protocol

Storage

• Saving and Loading models
• File Format (XML)

Services

• Undo Manager

External links

• You should definitely check out Agile Modeling including these pages:

  1. UML Diagrams (although Gaphor does not see it that black-and-white).

  2. http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/

• The official UML specification. This ‘’is’’ our data model.