The Code Generation 2011 conference and the Language Workbenches Competition 2011 Workshop are quite close in the calendar.
I want to celebrate it with the MDD community sharing my work on Essential (a tool designed for acquiring speed with Model Driven Development). On 11th may 2011, version 0.4.44 has been released as the first public beta.
Essential is a meta-modeling and code generation tool providing specific DSLs to define and consume:
- Metamodels
- Models
- Templates (using StringTemplate) &
- Transformations (Model2Text and Model2Model)
With a strong emphasis on model interpretation, prototyping a code generation can be done in an agile way without the need of generating any infrastructure boilerplate or meta-editor plumbling accessories.
The main goals of the tools is to enable software architects to:
- Prototyping software directly from models in a unexpensive way
- Evolve theirs software architectures as fast as possible experimenting with design choices
- Benchmarking and comparing architectures
- Code generation
For all of you interested in, feel free to try it, enjoy and provide feedback.
Try it also with the sample projects created for the LWC 2011 challenge.
