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Code generation links.
I spent some time this evening googling to see who else is talking about code generation.
This first article by Matt Stephens is a very good overview of the problem space. He motivates the problem well, and motivates why code generation is a good fit. In particular, he spends tie talking about generating the data access layer of an application, an area that I often see as being some of the "low hanging fruit" for code generation. Unfortunately, Matt doesn't provide any concrete examples of code generation in action, which makes his paper feels a bit too abstract.
Next, I found an article that talks about generating code using XSLT. Jeff Ryan walks through a fairly complete sample where he builds a JavaBean component using XML and XSLT. Christian Georgescu wrote a similar article in the C/C++ Users Journal where he talks about generating C++ code from XML and XSLT. I like Christian's motivation part of his article.
Based on my experience, writing a code generator in XSLT is difficult since the syntax of XSLT tends to obscure what the generated code looks like. Maintaining an XSLT-based code generator would be difficult for non-trivial applications. The thing that I really like about gslgen is that the syntax of the code generator is very clean and simplistic. Over the next week or so, I'll publish a few sample code generation scripts using gslgen to illustrate the utility of the technique.[IUnknown.com: John Lam's Weblog on Software Development] |
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