Team Support for Logical Model Integration

There are two viewpoints of interest when describing the Team support for logical model integration:

• Repository Provider: A Repository Provider is the connection between the local workspace and a remote repository. Details of the logical model support from the standpoint of a Repository Provider can be found in the Repository Roadmap for Logical Model Integration.
  
• Model Provider: A Model Provider is the tooling that allows the user to work with the model elements that are stored in the resources in the local workspace. Details of how Model Providers can leverage this support is found in Model Roadmap for Logical Model Integration.

The following points summarize the features covered by the Team logical model support.

• Maintaining Workspace Consistency: Operations performed directly on resources may have undesirable side effects on model elements that are persisted in, or are otherwise associated with, those resources. Clients can use the ResourceChangeValidator to validate that changes to resources will not have undesirable side effects on models while models can implement the ModelProvider#validateChange method to validate a resource change.
  
• Team Operations and Decorations: It has always been possible to have team operations and decorations appear on model elements that have a one-to-one relationship by adapting the model element to the corresponding IResource. It is now possible to have operation and decorations appear on model elements that have more complex relationships to resources by adapting a model element to a ResourceMapping.
  
• Semantic Merges of Model Elements: Model Providers can participate in headless merges by associating an IStorageMerger with a particular file type, if there is a one-to-one correspondence between model elements and resources. For more complex relationships, Model Providers can adapt their ModelProvider to an IResourceMappingMerger to have access to the full content of the merge operation.
  
• Model participation in team viewers: The team views now make use of the Common Navigator framework. By extending a Common Navigator extension point and a Team extension point, and supplying a content provider and a label provider, a Model Provider can appear in the team views. With a few more additional steps, it is also possible to provide Merge Preview support for a model.
  
• Remote Discovery: Model Providers can participate in Remote Discovery through the use of the Team ProjectSetCapability class to obtain an URI from project set entries. This URI can then be used with the Eclipse File System API to access remote contents.
• Model History: Model Providers can access individual File History through the FileHistory API, and present a model history as they wish in a custom History Page which get displayed in the History View.