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Is there any ready to use API provided by any eclipse plugin that allows one to manipulate UML class diagrams & database schema diagrams so that one can reuse it and for advanced users extend it to edit and generate same type or other non UML class diagrams / non database schema diagrams?

Thereby plugin dvelopers can have more intersting guis for their plugins without using GEF directly.
 
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Afaik no such thing exists.

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Is there any ready to use API provided by any eclipse plugin that allows one to manipulate UML class diagrams & database schema diagrams so that one can reuse it and for advanced users extend it to edit and generate same type or other non UML class diagrams / non database schema diagrams?


Not that I am aware of. You would need to use some combination of EMF (Eclipse Mdoelling Framework) and GEF(Graphical Editing Framework).
 
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EMF is too much about UML.
At times class diagrams itself are too much like code.

Having a generic diagram making API which is operating at a higher level than GEF would be invaluable to people who want to make comcept-based design tools.

Too bad its not there. It should be.

I should think if such an API existed there would be at least 2-3 people who would like to use it. But then there was a time when it was felt that in all there would be a need for only 6 compueters in the world.

In fact such an API could be used as an intermediary layer to EMF and database schema diagrams.
 
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