acceleo presentation - eclipsecon 2017

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Template-based Generation Tooling

Etienne JuliotEclipseCon 2017, Modeling Unconference

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Generating files from models

Coding rules

ModelSource code

Configuration filesDocumentation

CustomizableGenerator

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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!