MetaFactory.io Tech Docs

This site offers technical documentation for users of the MetaFactory Composer platform. There’s a lot of differend kinds of information. For ease of access we distinguish 4 information types:

1. Background

   Understanding oriented: offers general information and explains broad topics and their connections.

2. Tutorials

   Learning oriented: these are dedicated lessons.

3. How-To Guides

   Problem-oriented. Explain how to carry out a certain task.

4. Reference

   Information oriented. To-the-point technical descriptions of MetaFactory concepts and implementations.

In addition to these four comprehensive chapters we offer a Download page and Glossary.

Contents

• 1. Background
  • 1.1. Why MetaFactory?
  • 1.2. Automating the software production
  • 1.3. MetaFactory Composer, what is it?
  • 1.4. Patterns
  • 1.5. The MetaFactory Platform
  • 1.6. MetaFactory process overview
  • 1.7. MetaFactory Project Structure
• 2. Tutorials
  • 2.1. T00 Setup Project
  • 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
  • 3.2. 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
• 4. Reference
  • 4.1. Project Reference
  • 4.2. Model Reference
  • 4.3. Model API Reference
  • 4.4. Code Instructions in XML
  • 4.5. Code Instructions with snippets
  • 4.6. Expression Language
  • 4.7. Template engines
  • 4.8. Technology stack
  • 4.9. MetaFactory Features
• 5. Downloads and links
• 6. Glossary