JET editor

The JETEditor provides a rich text editor component for editing JET templates within Eclipse.

The mix of JSP-like script and template content in JET templates might rapidly become confusing and makes template editing challenging.
Template authors need a way to have a clearer view of the different text partitions and to reduce the complexity of writing the templates. The JET Editor leverages Eclipse text editor framework to provide this capability via features like :

Whereas JET Editor is bound to support the new EMFT implementation of the JET templates technology in a near future, it should currently only be used for the org.eclipse.emf.codegen implementation of the JET technology.

To invoke the JET editor, simply open a JET template file whose extension has been associated to the editor.

Related concepts

Template file types extension

Related tasks

Using the JET editor