Use Jet to create more and better code in eclipse

How to master the best practices of experts and improve your model-driven development progress

Introduction: Creating Templates to make best practices code (that is, generating artifacts) is a powerful concept that saves you countless times and reduces tedious coding. This article describes the code generation framework JET, which is an Eclipse technology project.

Code generation is not a new concept. It has been there for some time, and as a way to increase productivity, it has become popular with the development of model-driven development (MDD). The Eclipse project has a technical project called JET that is a specialized code generator. What JET can generate is more than just "code", anyway, in this article we call these Artifiact objects as artifacts.

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In this section, we'll cover the basics of Jet project setup, discuss the structure of the Jet project, and then run a quick transition.

Create a JET Project

Before we actually touch JET, we need to create a project. Implemented using the standard Eclipse method that creates the project. For JET, use command File > New > Other > Emft jet Transformations > EMFT Jet transformation Project (see Figure 1) to create a EMFT JET transformation Project.

Figure 1. JET Project Wizard

JET Project Structure