Code Generation Network - Generation Books

Code Generation is just starting out so writing books on the subject and educating engineers and management is important. That's why we have dedicated a portion of the site to a survey of books on the market and interviews with the authors.

Books

Rapid Application Development in .NET is a book available only on-line (currently) that covers code generation for the .NET platform.

Advanced Perl Programming has a chapter on code generation. We have an interview with the author.

Code Generation in Action from Manning covers the different models of generator and their application for a wide variety of applications.

Code Generation in Microsoft .NET by Kathleen Dollard is scheduled to be released in November, 2003.

Convergent Architecture, by Richard Hubert, covers MDA as well as a whole new approach to development. More information in this interview.

David Steinberg, author of the Eclipse Modeling Framework talks with us about his book and this unique Model Driven Generation framework that is embedded into the Eclipse Java IDE.

Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture covers compiling UML models into working code.

Generative Programming is a set of papers that covers a bunch of generation topics. It has a substantial amount of information on using C++ templates.

MDA Explained is a new book on MDA from Addison-Wesley. The book covers all of the standards and provides an example of how a complete application can be generated using MDA. Anneke Kleppe, one of the authors, gives us an interview about the book and MDA.

Model Driven Architecture : Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing is a book on MDA by David Frankel. The book is an in-depth look at MDA both from a technical as well as a process level. David took the time to speak with us about the book and MDA.

Program Generators with XML and Java by Craig Cleaveland. This book covers the popular methods of generating Java using XML. Craig talks with us about the book and techniques of using XML to generate Java.

XDoclet in Action is Manning's new book on XDoclet and we have an exclusive interview with one of the authors, Norman Richards.

XSLT Cookbook from O'Reilly has a chapter on code generation with XSLT. Our interview with the author, Sal Mangano.

Articles

Terence Parr covers his alternative text templating engine (PDF link) that supports a very strict separation of concerns between the model and the view.

Michel Katz introduces us to his xJen Architecture for code generation, which emphasizes abstraction and portability through use of XML and templates.

Using his SoProMach generator, Francesco Aliverti-Piuri, builds a pre-processing generator for Java.

Francesco Aliverti-Piuri has written an article on using his SoProMach generator to build PHP for database access.

Soumen Sarkar introduces us to the techniques behind using XSLT to generate Java in his article Model Driven Programming Using XSLT (PDF 1.0MB). (Reprinted from XML-Journal, Vol. 3 issue 8, with permission. Copyright SYS-CON Media 2003. XML-Journal is available monthly in print and online at http://www.xml-journal.com.)

Don't know what code generation is? Don't know how code generation can save your project thousands of man hours of work? Introduction To Code Generation gives you a solid grounding in the basics then provides a guided tour through all of the different models of code generators.

Iain Falconer talks about model driven generation of applications in his article 'Welcome to the Next Generation!'.

Jack Herrington covers generation of .NET database access code in new article (PDF, 130KB) exclusive to the Code Generation Network.

"Code Generator for Building Maps for #define Macros" is our first article on the construction of code generators.

Blogs

Connections - A blog with authors from all over the code generation industry which points to software updates, articles, books, and developments in the community.
Last Train Home - Jack Herrington's technical blog.

Books on Other Topics

SQL Tuning covers building optimally efficient SQL code. Our interview with the author, Dan Tow.

Learn all you need to know about the Perl Template Toolkit in our interview with Darren Chamberlain on his book the Perl Template Toolkit.

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