WebSphere Application Developer has a Struts Diagraming tool that will let you create a skeleton struts application using drag and drop. It does very well. It will populate your struts-config.xml and create skeleton JSPs, ActionClasses, FormObjects, and the like. No actual "code" generation, just the shell.
If you are looking for something a little more robust, the Rational rapid developer will do the same thing using UML and will Shell out you application based on your model. Again little actual code generation, but it will give lesser developers a good starting point using real design/archetecture.
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
08/10/2005 01:34 PM
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Anyone who has read this list for a while knows my feeling on automated
code generation... saying it's a crime against humanity might be
overstating my opinion a bit, but not by much :)
I think Greg says it well though... I never had a problem using the
application wizard in Visual C++... it just created a very simple skeleton
application, everything else was up to me. I have no problem with that.
Plug-ins that generate simple beans I can live with. Utilities that let
me enter a list of basic information on class members and spit out the
skeletal class code for me are fine.
Those tools that take in a WSDL file and spit out a very basic Web Service
client from it are OK, barely... they haven't crossed that line I don't
want crossed yet, but they are on the way...
I remember having to deal with some Swing code that was created by a
junior programmer using some IDE (I forget which frankly, it's not on the
market any more - I want to say it was IBM's old one before WSAD, but I
might be wrong). The code was such an immense tangle of crap it still
makes me shudder to think of it all these years later. THAT is the kind
of code generator that will NEVER be allowed in my shop, no matter how
productive it might make lesser developers. I don't care how easy and
fast it is to drag some pictrues on a canvas, draw some lines to show
interactions, enter a little bit of additional info and get essentially a
whole applicatio out... that kind of stuff won't go on where I have any
say in the matter. The cost in the long-run so far outweighs the
immediate benefits as to be laughable, or so has been my experience
anyway.
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Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com
On Wed, August 10, 2005 1:18 pm, Lindholm, Greg said:
> That's a very narrow view of code generators.
> There are plenty of domains where the generator is used once to give the
> programmer a starting point.
> (I'm not commenting on nor judging this guys stuff.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 1:05 PM
> To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> Subject: AW: Nice try (was Java code generator including Struts 1.2)
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> Hmm... I think you clearly offence the rule one for generators:
> generated code should never be touched!
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> Regards
> leon
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