[News.eclipse.technology.mddi] Re: Accelo

[Sven Efftinge <sven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Etienne Juliot schrieb:
> We are using a template language dedicated to model browsing. So, 
> navivation and manipulation are easier with this tree-like syntax 
> (exemple : iterate over a collection or go into a nested element are 
> natural).
Easier than what?
What do you mean by this and that "is natural"?
From what i have seen, the "model browsing" in acceleo is reduced on 
calling features of the respective model elements, isn't it?
What is the "tree-like" syntax about? examples?
What about conditions, literals and operators?
And what about "real" model browsing with higher-order functions (like 
in OCL)? This is absolutely essential for a modern template language.

> It is design to keep target source code easy to read and to maintain.
Because you have to implement everything using Java services.
Unfortunately, Java doesn't offer good model browsing capabilities either...

> Acceleo is ready for production use.
Xpand and openArchitectureWare is used in production for many years now.

regards,
Sven

> Regards,
>
> Etienne Juliot
>
> Sven Efftinge a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > what template language have you used so far?
> > What are the benefits of Acceleo over GMT's solutions (MOFScript, Xpand)?
> >
> > regards,
> > Sven
> >
> > Xavier Blanc schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have just had a nice presentation from OBEO about Acceleo that is a 
> > > Model2Text generation engine (http://www.acceleo.org).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This industrial tool would be very helpful for generating ModelBus 
> > > Adapters and I am sure it should also be interesting for solving a 
> > > lot of model to text integration problems.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > OBEO offers it as Open Source and they want to put it into the 
> > > Eclipse community. I propose them to put it inside our MDDi project. 
> > > They seem interested.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any comment?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Xavier Blanc