Eclipse Layout Kernel (ELK)

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.

More Info

• The ELK homepage
• ... and ELK's documentation
• ELK Live (web-based playground to play around with ELK)
• elkjs (JavaScript library transpiled from ELK's Java sources)

Example Layout

Repository Structure

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.
• docs: Contains documentation in the form of a Hugo site.
• features: Contains all the Eclipse features ELK consists of.
• plugins: Contains all the plugins ELK consists of.
• setups: Contains our Oomph setup files.
• tests: Contains unit tests. Note that we have a whole repository dedicated to test models.

Building ELK

Information on how to build ELK and the documentation can be found on our website.