Re: [m2t-dev] What's the difference between Xpand and Acceleo?

[K J <gommery@xxxxxxxxx>]

My thanks to everyone for the responses.

Cedric - I believe you are right that it shouldn't take much effort to
push things forward. Perhaps the only real problem(s) is that I can't
find sufficient documentation to help me use Acceleo standalone, or
I'm misunderstanding the purpose of a standalone project. I haven't
done much with Acceleo beyond working with chains that someone else
created, so maybe it's obvious to more experienced users. I've tried
performing exports several different ways, and half the time I end up
with an empty project. Once I have an exported project (which includes
a src directory with .java and .emt files, a project jar containing
.class and .mt files, and a lib directory with an assortment of other
dependencies such as fr.obeo.acceleo.ecore.jar, etc.), I'm not really
sure what to do next. Does a standalone project give me the context
(i.e. classpath dependencies) to launch a chain from the command-line,
or is it just providing a single Java class per template which I could
string together using Java or a script? How is it intended to be used?
Any guidance you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Cédric Brun <cedric.brun@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As Karsten said Acceleo and XPand are both model to text transformation
> technologies and as such answer the same needs. One big difference
> between them is the fact that M2T/Acceleo is an implementation of the
> OMG Standard for Model To Text transformation whereas XPand has it's own
> ocl-like in-house syntax.
>
> Concerning the Maven issue I'm quite interested in getting more
> information about what would be "missing".  As M2T/Acceleo is standalone
> - it can be used as plain old Java jar without the Eclipse/OSGi runtime
> I have the feeling we  probably don't need much effort to push things
> forward. What do you mean by "play nice with Maven" ?
>
> Cédric
>
> K J a écrit :
>> Not sure where I should be posting this question, so I apologize if
>> this isn't the appropriate forum.
>>
>> Some people at my company have been using Acceleo for a while now, and
>> I've been looking for ways to make it play nice with Maven (so far
>> without luck). During my research I came across the M2T project and
>> subsequently Xpand. I've been trying to figure out the differences
>> between Acceleo and Xpand, but I'm not clear on what they each do. It
>> seems like there is a lot of overlap between the two projects, and if
>> that is true, I don't understand why they are both part of M2T. Can
>> someone please clarify?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
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