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Contents
1. Background
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 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. Model-Code Instruction interaction: Metadata
1.7. MetaFactory Project Structure
1.7.1. Project configuration
1.7.2. Model
1.7.3. Code instructions
1.7.4. Properties (optional)
1.7.5. Naming
2. Tutorials
2.1. T00 Setup Project
2.1.1. Get the Metafactory environment up and running
2.1.2. Get started
2.2. T01 Hello World
2.3. T02 Create a Class
2.4. T03 Create a Constructor
2.5. T04 Create a Snippet
2.6. T05 Foreach Object
3. How-To Guides
3.1. Get and install MetaFactory environment
3.1.1. MetaFactory on Windows
3.1.2. MetaFactory on OSX/MacOS
3.2. Configuring your IDE
3.2.1. Configuring Eclipse
3.2.1.1. Plugins
3.2.1.2. XML Catalog
3.2.1.3. Code fragments for Freemarker
3.2.2. Configuring IntelliJ IDEA
3.2.2.1. Installing and configuring IntelliJ IDEA plugin
3.2.2.2. Resolving XML errors
3.2.2.3. Live Templates
3.2.2.4. Implicit objects in Freemarker or Velocity templates
3.3. QuickStart
3.3.1. Create your first example
3.3.2. Evaluation
3.4. Building a Code Instruction
3.5. How to use snippets
3.6. SDA example using snippets
3.6.1. Pattern
3.6.2. Model
3.6.3. Project
3.6.4. Phone class created
3.6.5. Freemarker snippet
3.6.6. Evaluation
3.7. Features and how to use them
3.7.1. Implementation of a Feature - General
3.7.2. Drag & Drop
3.7.3. User Preferences
3.7.3.1. Files
3.7.3.2. Developer notes
4. Reference
4.1. Project Reference
4.1.1. Structure of the project file
4.1.1.1. Model
4.1.1.2. Pattern
4.1.1.3. Snippets Folder
4.1.1.4. Output
4.1.1.5. BuildSets
4.1.1.6. Maps
4.1.1.7. Property Files
4.1.1.8. Configuration
4.1.1.9. BusinessStyle
4.2. Model Reference
4.2.1. Model structure
4.2.2. Child elements
4.2.2.1. Package
4.2.2.2. Object
4.2.2.3. Attribute
4.2.2.4. Reference
4.2.2.5. Metadata
4.3. Model API Reference
4.3.1. Available context objects
4.3.1.1. Model API Model Root
4.3.1.2. Model API Model Package
4.3.1.3. Model API Model Object
4.3.1.4. Model API Model Attribute
4.3.1.5. Model API Model Reference
4.3.2. Model hierarchy
4.4. Code Instructions in XML
4.4.1. Introduction
4.4.1.1. Namespaces
4.4.1.2. The root element
4.4.1.3. Child elements
4.4.1.4. Complement XML patterns with snippets
4.4.1.5. Code instruction base
4.4.2. Java Code Instruction Elements
4.4.2.1. Java package
4.4.2.2. Interface
4.4.2.3. Class
4.4.2.4. Field
4.4.2.5. Method
4.4.2.6. Import
4.4.2.7. External libraries
4.4.2.8. External Java package
4.4.3. TypeScript Instruction Elements
4.4.4. XML files
4.4.5. Text files (plain files)
4.5. Code Instructions with snippets
4.5.1. Lots of added flexibility
4.5.2. How to use it
4.6. Expression Language
4.6.1. Functions
4.6.2. Variables
4.6.3. Data type mappings
4.7. Template engines
4.7.1. Freemarker and Velocity Context Variables
4.7.2. Freemarker settings
4.7.3. Freemarker context object: metafactory
4.7.4. Freemarker context object: context
4.7.5. Freemarker context object: comparatorFactory
4.7.6. Velocity settings
4.7.7. Velocity Functions
4.7.7.1. Call by using the
$metafactory
context variable
4.7.7.2. Call by using the $context context variable
4.7.7.3. Call by using the $sxmiFactory context variable
4.7.7.4. Best practices and lines you often need
4.8. Technology stack
4.8.1. Liquibase
4.8.1.1. Purpose
4.8.1.2. Website
4.8.1.3. Buildsets involved
4.8.1.4. Usage
4.9. MetaFactory Features
4.9.1. User Preferences
4.9.1.1. Description
4.9.1.2. Examples
4.9.1.3. Objects
4.9.1.4. Metadata
4.9.1.5. Patterns
4.9.1.6. Snippets
4.9.2. Drag & Drop
4.9.2.1. Description
4.9.2.2. Metadata
4.9.2.3. Patterns
4.9.3. Screens
4.9.3.1. Description
4.9.3.2. Metadata
5. Downloads and links
6. Glossary
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Contents
3.1. Get and install MetaFactory environment
3.2. Configuring your IDE
3.3. QuickStart
3.4. Building a Code Instruction
3.5. How to use snippets
3.6. SDA example using snippets
3.7. Features and how to use them
