1. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Cédric Brun cedric.brun@obeo.fr
Obeo
France
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2. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Eclipse Strategic Member
Eclipse Modeling Project
M2T : Acceleo
M2M : ATL
EMFT : EMF Compare, EEF
Papyrus UML, OCL, ...
Eclipse STP – SCA
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3. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Generating Code ?
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4. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
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5. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Code Generation
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6. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Some people are already using it ...
(and suffered for you...)
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
EEF Extended Editing Framework
the first available use case
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos01-papyrus-properties.htm
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos02-papyrus-code.htm
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos03-papyrus-config.htm
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos04-eef-gen-templates.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
What's that Acceleo Next Gen Stuff ?
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Acceleo Syntax – Model to Text Language (MTL)
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos05-acceleo-syntax.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Editing Features in Eclipse : Completion, F3...
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos06-acceleo-editor-features.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
User Code
Protected Areas
JMerge
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Create and run your first module in 2 clicks
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos07-acceleo-new-module.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Debugging modules
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos08-acceleo-debug.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Packaging – Create a Popup Action to Generate
09-acceleo-ui-runner
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Advanced Eclipse Features
Dynamic contributions / Template Aspects
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Advanced Eclipse Features
Java invocation
M2M and M2T interoperability (coming soon)
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18. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
But, why should I bother to migrate ?
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Acceleo : Migrate from a version to another...
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos10-acceleo-migrate.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
OMG Specification
Compliance Level
STD versus Non-STD library 80% for Galileo
Standard evolution at the OMG
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Traceability for Generation Preview
D:UsersJonathanObeotodoeclipse-con-2009videos10-acceleo-traceability.htm
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A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Roadmap
2010 : all the website and infrastructures moved to
Eclipse.org
Rock stable and production-ready release : Eclipse Helios
Simpler model navigation syntax
STD versus Non-STD validation markers
Migration tooling from .mt to .mtl
Acceleo.org maintenance builds
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23. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Conclusion
In the Galileo Train and Eclipse Modeling Package
Ready to use, try it !
Examples are available : uml to java, ecore to python
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24. Acceleo MTL
A Standard Alternative for Code Generation
Thanks for your attention
M2T newsgroup and mailling list
#acceleo or #eclipse-modeling on freenode
Further information :
http://www.eclipse.org/m2t
cedric.brun@obeo.fr
http://www.omg.org/docs/ptc/07-08-16.pdf
http://www.obeo.fr
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eef
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