Outputting Code

Abstract

Once you’ve prepared your metadata, the next step is to build templates and perform code generation. Your initial development and long-term maintenance both benefit from repeatable one-click code generation. You benefit from operational simplicity because you can largely forget about code generation details and template content during development. A maintenance programmer benefits from operational consistency because they can repeat your actions with little effort. The keys to this repeatability are placing as much code as practical in templates and using a tool to perform the multiple steps of code generation.