[mdt-ocl.dev] Announcing the OCL 2 Java code generator

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

The OCL 2 Java code generator has now been pushed to master, however 
because of cyclic dependencies via Acceleo, it cannot be included in the 
Core build. Hopefully a Tools build will be available soon. In the 
meantime fetch examples/org.eclipse.ocl.examples.codegen from GIT.

Examples of generated code may be found in 
org.eclipse.ocl.examples.xtext.tests/src/codegen/company.*

where

CodegencompanyTables provides the dispatch tables
impl/*Impl contains the API conversion calls to the OCL bodies
bodies/*Bodies contains the per-class OCL bodies

All the current delegates tests pass successfully handling recursions, 
tuples and allInstances on Ecore without needing a dynamic pivot model.

Only slight difference is the severity and spelling of the default "is 
not satisfied" message.

Code generation can be enabled/disabled by

<genAnnotations source="http://www.eclipse.org/OCL/GenModel";>
<details key="Use Delegates" value="false"/>
</genAnnotations>

in the GenModel. The default is to not use delegates so just install (or 
import and invoke a run-time Eclipse) the ocl.examples.codegen plugin 
and re-genmodel to replace delegates by direct code.

Axel: A similar annotation could enable whatever is appropriate for 
activating the Impact Analyzer.

    Regards

        Ed Willink