This tutorial describes a new component-based generation approach that enables the reuse of design elements that are common to many projects.

This mechanism goes a step further in the synthesis of production code: users can embed into their models generation components able to synthesize user defined design patterns. Users identify which repeatable solutions they will typically need in the context of their company’s project domains and are able to make them concrete by defining and implementing suitable generation patterns.

In this way, corporate know-how moves from reusable ideas on paper towards automated generation engines contained in UML models. A real independence from the hardware / software platform is kept, and a real reuse of these components can be made at corporate project level.

We caught up with Fabrizio ahead of Code Generation 2007 to talk about his background and his current work with ARTiSAN Software.

Read Fabrizio's interview with the Code Generation Network (PDF).