1. Background

This chapter offers you the foundation of knowledge that you need to understand and to be able to work with the MetaFactory Composer.

Contents

• 1.1. Why MetaFactory?
  • 1.1.1. What do Developers need?
  • 1.1.2. The conventional way of development
• 1.2. Automating the software production
  • 1.2.1. Automation, in which case?
• 1.3. MetaFactory Code Composer, what is it?
  • 1.3.1. Developing with the Composer
  • 1.3.2. The Real Power
  • 1.3.3. The Big Benefit
  • 1.3.4. And what’s in it for you, as a developer?
• 1.4. Patterns
• 1.5. The MetaFactory Platform
  • 1.5.1. Trend
  • 1.5.2. Proposition MetaFactory
• 1.6. MetaFactory process overview
  • 1.6.1. Conventional development process
  • 1.6.2. Development with MetaFactory
  • 1.6.3. Diversify
  • 1.6.4. Reuse
  • 1.6.5. Building a Code Instruction
  • 1.6.6. Metadata - Interaction between MetaModel and Code Instruction
• 1.7. MetaFactory Project Structure
  • 1.7.1. Project configuration
  • 1.7.2. MetaModel
  • 1.7.3. Code instructions
  • 1.7.4. Properties (optional)
  • 1.7.5. Naming

MetaFactory in 90 seconds

Under construction.

We still have to include the a lot of information in this chapter:

• The MetaFactory Tool

• Working method

• Description of important entities

• Guidelines on

  • Functional design

  • Technical design

  • Application of tooling