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Template-based Generation Tooling
Etienne Juliot
EclipseCon 2017, Modeling Unconference

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Generating files from models
Coding rules
Model
Source code
Configuration files
Documentation
Customizable
Generator

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Why?
Quality
Automatically apply your best
coding best-practices
Productivity
Produce code in less time
than you would write it
manually
Adaptability
Easily integrate both functional
and technical evolutions
Produce good code quicker and safer!

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What is Acceleo?
Powerful and standard templating language Dedicated edition tooling
Quickly create lasting code generators!
Easy to adapt and maintain during your whole project’s life-cycle

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MTL Standard templating language (MOF-to-Text Language)
User code management
Invokation of Java Queries
Conditional File Generation
Local Variables Definition
Modularity
Polymorphism

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Integrated tooling
Initialization wizard
Template Editor
Syntax highlighting
Completion
Open declaration
Quick replacement
Refactoring
Hot Replace
Error detection
Interpreter View
Profiling
Dedicated Runtime
Stand alone + Maven Support
VCS support

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Template-based Generation Tooling
Easy Modular Iterative
www.eclipse.org/acceleo
✔ Tutorials
✔ User Guide
✔ Developer Doc
✔ Best Practices

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Project Organization
Specifications ARE Validation tests
For each Pattern
One Model
One Hand-Made Text File
One translation explaination
→ One new implemented feature
→ One test case
Avoid regression
Initialize
Edit
Deploy

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Vision for Acceleo 4
History : V1.0 (2006) v3.0 (MTL + Eclipse.org) v3.8→ →
Adopt AQL
Less verbose
Faster
Consistent with M2Doc & Sirius
Simplified internal architecture
Get rid of EMTL files to ease build & deployment
LSP based to support LSP4e, CHE, Visual Studio Code and other?
Template Debugger
Envisionned roadmap : Depending of your priorities & your support!