Program Generator Projects

Program Generator Projects and Activities

Template Language as described in Chapter 12

Jostraca, a general purpose code generation toolkit for software developers. It uses a JSP-style template language for generating code.

Generative Programming - Methods, Tools, and Applications, a web site for Krzysztof Czarnecki's and Ulrich W. Eisenecker's book.

Harmony Software is the home for ivy*meta SDTB, formerly known as MetaTool and Stage from Bell Laboratories.

Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University is heavily funded, mostly DARPA, in the area of generators/program synthesis. Their core research is in the synthesis of domain-specific models.

Houston Technology Group is the home of the EJBX Code Generator. It's input is an XML-based specification and the output is the software support code for a range of EJB database access layer.

Quick, is a Java-based tool for generating and processing XML. It generates Java programs for processing XML files.

JavaML, an XML-based Source Code Representation for Java Programs. This can provide a way to generate XML representations of Java programs.

eXtenDE, an extensible development environment based on XML and Java, yet another potential environment for creating XML-based program generators.

Libero translates state diagrams into programs in a variety of languages using a programmable code generator.

The DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit is a software synthesis and maintenance toolkit that enables the analysis, translation, and/or reverse engineering of large-scale software systems, containing arbitrary mixtures of languages ("domains"). DMS can also be used for domain-specific program generation.

Java and EJB code generation, a site with links to articles and products.

SourceCafe is a Java source code generator and aims to be a Rapid Application Prototyping solution for generating up to 80% of a database-driven web application.

SmartTools System: Aspect and XML-oriented Semantic Framework Generator.

CodeWorker is a scripting language adapted to code generation that integrates an extended BNF-parsing syntax to be able acquiring the design of what to generate for any kind of format.

Jenerator is a multipurpose Java code generator based on XML and XSLT. It generates EJB 2.0, Unit Tests for JUnit and Cactus, JDO, J2EE and GOF patterns, ANT Scripts and servlets.

Application Generators at XML.com.

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