General Availability of Cloud-Connector for Maven

Code Name „Codegeneration 2014“

16. April 2014

Why reinvent Code Generation?

13. Mai 2014

Virtual Developer now provides one more Cloud-Connector. The Cloud-Connector for Maven lets you execute remote code generators that are deployed on the Virtual Developer Platform. As a prerequisite you have to be registered on the platform. In the Maven POM file you then configure a generation project along with the model files that you want to send to the remote generator.

The benefits of using the Cloud-Connector for Maven are:

You can execute code generation within your continuous integration process.
In every environment where Maven can be used, you can apply code generation with Virtual Developer. We have tried this with NetBeans and it works like a charm. Soon we will write a separate blog post to tell you more about using the Cloud-Connector for Maven in NetBeans.
As a generator provider, you can execute automated tests for your code generators.

More Cloud-Connectors are on our roadmap, the Cloud-Connector for Visual Studio for instance. If you need your own Cloud-Connector to become part of your product offering, please contact us. Cloud-Connector implementations are completely platform independent, so this is fairly easy to accomplish.

Marcus Munzert

Marcus Munzert ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Generative Software GmbH. Seit 1998 entwickelt er mit Java und ist ein überzeugter Nutzer von Java/Jakarta EE und OSGi. Er ist seit 2002 auf die modellgetriebene Entwicklung spezialisiert und verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung als Software-Architekt, Berater, Entwickler, Projektleiter, Trainer und Qualitätsmanager.