Autocode

Work in progress on a modular code generation framework. Works, but is expected to still change quite a bit.

General patterns:

• the module autocode-plugin contains the Maven plugin that handles the code generation
• the actual templates used to generate code are in so-called "PAKs", each has three modules:
  • the actual templates and configuration for them: *-pak
  • the runtime dependencies: *-lib
  • a test project to generate some code and validate it: *-test

The test projects show usage of the plugin. Generally speaking it comes down to:

• add the Maven plugin to the build's generate-sources phase
• add all PAKs to be used to the plugin's dependencies
• add the matching runtime libraries to the build's dependencies

The PAKs are described in the README.md files of their main module. It is recommended to check out the corresponding test module, including the generated code as that shows usage and scope.