This package is an easy to use code generator. It fits my personal use and might not fit yours. It's very lightweight (much more lightweight than AndroMDA or Sculptor) and easy to extend.

It takes a project definition file, see sample.model, and generates hibernate Entities, DAO interface, DAO implementation, Service interface, Service implementation in a Spring autowired way.

It uses velocity macro templates for those implementations, you can modify these templates or create new templates.

Download the distribution tar.gz and unzip it to a folder of your choice. Create an environment variable MCP_HOME that points to your mcp root directory (the one with the mcp command in it).

Then add MCP_HOME folder to your $PATH variable, so that you can invoke 'mcp'.

mcp will look for templates in MCP_HOME/templates.

Assuming you have a model file, you invoke the mcp command: Run 'mcp model_file' to run the code generator on it.

An example of a model file can be found in src/test/com/stormdealers/mcp/tests/sample.model

All current templates are located in src/main/resources/templates - I imagine this to expand over the course of the next year or so.

This software is provided as is, with no guarantee of fitness for any purpose. It is distributed under the terms of the Apache Software License 2.0.

Contributions are welcome! I could imagine, we could end up with a template library that we can specify to use.