<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open-source	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
from	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
that	O
allows	O
people	O
to	O
use	O
a	O
model-driven	B-Architecture
approach	O
to	O
building	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
"	O
MOFM2T	B-Language
"	O
standard	O
,	O
from	O
the	O
Object	B-Architecture
Management	I-Architecture
Group	I-Architecture
(	O
OMG	O
)	O
,	O
for	O
performing	O
model-to-text	O
transformation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acceleo	B-Language
project	O
is	O
born	O
in	O
2006	O
with	O
the	O
website	O
Acceleo.org	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
1.0	O
was	O
licensed	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	O
Public	O
Licence	O
(	O
GPL	O
)	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
compatible	O
with	O
Eclipse	O
3.0	O
,	O
3.1	O
and	O
several	O
modelers	O
based	O
on	O
EMF	B-Language
and	O
UML	B-Language
1.2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
few	O
weeks	O
later	O
,	O
Acceleo	B-Language
1.1	O
brought	O
the	O
compatibility	O
with	O
Eclipse	O
3.2	O
and	O
UML	B-Language
1.3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
changed	O
its	O
licence	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
1.2	O
to	O
adopt	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
Public	O
Licence	O
(	O
EPL	O
)	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
projects	O
of	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
2	O
was	O
available	O
on	O
June	O
5	O
,	O
2007	O
,	O
after	O
the	O
launch	O
of	O
the	O
website	O
planet.acceleo.org	O
which	O
includes	O
articles	O
created	O
by	O
the	O
members	O
of	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
community	O
and	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
modules	O
repository	O
which	O
contains	O
code	O
generators	O
based	O
on	O
Acceleo	B-Language
2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
while	O
moving	O
to	O
Acceleo	B-Language
3	O
,	O
the	O
project	O
has	O
been	O
accepted	O
in	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
During	O
this	O
transition	O
,	O
the	O
language	O
used	O
by	O
Acceleo	B-Language
to	O
define	O
a	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
has	O
been	O
changed	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
new	O
standard	O
from	O
the	O
OMG	O
for	O
model	O
to	O
text	O
transformation	O
,	O
MOFM2T	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Eclipse	O
3.6	O
Helios	O
,	O
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
simultaneous	O
release	O
train	O
as	O
an	O
official	O
project	O
of	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
an	O
Eclipse	O
plugin	O
and	O
as	O
such	O
it	O
is	O
integrated	O
in	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
built	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
several	O
key	O
Eclipse	O
technologies	O
like	O
EMF	B-Language
and	O
,	O
since	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
3	O
,	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
implementation	O
of	O
OCL	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
source	O
code	O
is	O
open	O
source	O
,	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
trademark	O
and	O
its	O
logo	O
,	O
integrated	O
in	O
Acceleo	B-Language
,	O
are	O
not	O
open	O
source	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
were	O
the	O
trademark	O
of	O
the	O
company	O
Obeo	O
,	O
creator	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
,	O
and	O
they	O
were	O
transferred	O
to	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
when	O
Acceleo	B-Language
was	O
accepted	O
as	O
an	O
official	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
an	O
Eclipse	O
project	O
mostly	O
developed	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
available	O
under	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
Public	O
Licence	O
(	O
EPL	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
code	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
1.x	O
and	O
2.x	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
SVN	O
on	O
the	O
website	O
of	O
the	O
OW2	O
Consortium	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
its	O
entrance	O
in	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
in	O
2009	O
,	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
3	O
was	O
transferred	O
from	O
SVN	O
to	O
a	O
CVS	O
based	O
repository	O
on	O
the	O
servers	O
of	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
Eclipse	O
3.7	O
Indigo	O
in	O
2011	O
,	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
project	O
has	O
migrated	O
to	O
Git	O
following	O
the	O
migration	O
started	O
by	O
several	O
official	O
project	O
of	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
and	O
since	O
July	O
2011	O
,	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
source	O
code	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
Release	O
date	O
Release	O
log	O
1.0	O
1	O
April	O
2006	O
First	O
version	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
available	O
under	O
the	O
GPL	O
licence	O
,	O
code	O
generation	O
from	O
EMF	B-Language
based	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2.1	O
12	O
July	O
2007	O
Compatibility	O
with	O
Eclipse	O
3.3	O
,	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
debugger	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2.2	O
7	O
January	O
2008	O
Localization	O
support	O
,	O
support	O
for	O
different	O
encoding	O
of	O
the	O
templates	O
,	O
release	O
of	O
the	O
following	O
generators	O
:	O
JEE	O
,	O
PHP	O
,	O
Python	B-Language
and	O
WISS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.0	O
15	O
June	O
2010	O
New	O
language	O
to	O
define	O
code	O
generators	O
based	O
on	O
MOFM2T	B-Language
,	O
support	O
for	O
OCL	O
based	O
queries	O
,	O
real	O
time	O
compilation	O
with	O
error	O
detection	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.2	O
27	O
October	O
2011	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
with	O
the	O
new	O
"	O
Interpreter	O
"	O
view	O
to	O
evaluate	O
Acceleo	B-Language
expression	O
on	O
a	O
given	O
set	O
of	O
model	O
element	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.3	O
29	O
May	O
2012	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.4	O
10	O
June	O
2013	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.5	O
10	O
June	O
2014	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.6	O
8	O
June	O
2015	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
3.7	O
15	O
October	O
2016	O
Next	O
major	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
is	O
deployed	O
as	O
a	O
plugin	O
in	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
IDE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
supported	O
on	O
Java	B-Language
5+	O
based	O
environments	O
,	O
on	O
the	O
following	O
platforms	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Starting	O
with	O
Acceleo	B-Language
3	O
,	O
the	O
language	O
used	O
to	O
define	O
an	O
Acceleo	B-Language
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
is	O
an	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
MOFM2T	B-Language
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Within	O
Acceleo	B-Language
,	O
those	O
expression	O
are	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
OCL	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
provides	O
tools	O
for	O
code	O
generation	O
from	O
EMF	B-Language
based	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thanks	O
to	O
those	O
tools	O
,	O
Acceleo	B-Language
allows	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
incremental	O
generation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
also	O
allows	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
generation	O
of	O
any	O
textual	O
language	O
(	O
C	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
etc	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
contains	O
a	O
code	O
generation	O
modules	O
editor	O
with	O
syntax	O
highlighting	O
,	O
completion	O
,	O
real	O
time	O
error	O
detection	O
and	O
refactoring	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acceleo	B-Language
debugger	O
gives	O
the	O
possibility	O
to	O
keep	O
an	O
eye	O
on	O
the	O
progression	O
of	O
a	O
generation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Profiling	O
data	O
are	O
available	O
in	O
an	O
EMF	B-Language
models	O
after	O
a	O
generation	O
launched	O
with	O
the	O
profiler	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
gives	O
the	O
user	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
find	O
bottleneck	O
in	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
created	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acceleo	B-Language
engine	O
can	O
compute	O
traceability	O
information	O
of	O
all	O
the	O
elements	O
involved	O
in	O
the	O
generation	O
of	O
a	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
system	O
allows	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
,	O
to	O
determine	O
the	O
elements	O
from	O
the	O
input	O
models	O
that	O
have	O
been	O
used	O
to	O
generate	O
a	O
specific	O
piece	O
of	O
text	O
and	O
the	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
that	O
has	O
been	O
involved	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
parser	O
and	O
the	O
generation	O
engine	O
,	O
critical	O
components	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
,	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
used	O
in	O
"	O
stand-alone	O
"	O
,	O
without	O
being	O
deployed	O
on	O
Eclipse	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
generates	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
class	O
to	O
launch	O
the	O
generation	O
programmatically	O
thus	O
allowing	O
the	O
integration	O
of	O
an	O
Acceleo	B-Language
generator	O
in	O
any	O
Java	B-Language
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
Java	B-Language
launcher	O
can	O
also	O
be	O
called	O
from	O
Ant	O
or	O
Maven	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
latest	O
release	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
compatible	O
with	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
modeling	O
framework	O
EMF	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
it	O
is	O
compatible	O
with	O
any	O
tool	O
that	O
can	O
produce	O
EMF	B-Language
compatible	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
can	O
use	O
any	O
EMF	B-Language
compatible	O
models	O
defined	O
from	O
any	O
kind	O
of	O
metamodel	O
like	O
UML	B-Language
or	O
even	O
a	O
custom	O
DSLs	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
From	O
this	O
metamodel	O
,	O
the	O
user	O
can	O
define	O
a	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
that	O
will	O
produce	O
any	O
kind	O
of	O
textual	O
language	O
from	O
a	O
model	O
using	O
the	O
metamodel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Here	O
we	O
are	O
using	O
the	O
following	O
elements	O
:	O
EClass	O
,	O
EAttribute	O
and	O
EOperation	O
from	O
EMF	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thanks	O
to	O
the	O
simple	O
module	O
and	O
this	O
input	O
model	O
,	O
Acceleo	B-Language
can	O
generate	O
the	O
former	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
module	O
defined	O
in	O
this	O
example	O
is	O
parameterized	O
to	O
generate	O
Java	B-Language
but	O
the	O
MOFM2T	B-Language
standard	O
is	O
independent	O
of	O
the	O
generated	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Acceleo	B-Language
integrates	O
several	O
code	O
generation	O
examples	O
to	O
generate	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
Python	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acceleo	B-Language
community	O
is	O
gathered	O
around	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
part	O
of	O
the	O
website	O
of	O
the	B-Application
Eclipse	I-Application
Foundation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Acceleo	B-Language
documentation	O
is	O
accessible	O
online	O
on	O
the	O
Eclipse	O
Help	O
Center	O
and	O
on	O
the	O
wiki	O
of	O
the	O
Acceleo	B-Language
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
developers	O
of	O
Acceleo	B-Language
are	O
also	O
communicating	O
with	O
the	O
community	O
thanks	O
to	O
presentation	O
realized	O
in	O
MDA	O
or	O
Eclipse	O
conferences	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Name	O
Date	O
Location	O
Title	O
of	O
the	O
presentation	O
MDA	O
approach	O
conference	O
23	O
November	O
2006	O
Geneva	O
SOA/MDA	O
2006-30-11	O
Luxembourg	O
EclipseCon	O
2007	O
6	O
March	O
2007	O
Los	O
Angeles	O
Eclipse	O
Summit	O
Europe	O
2008	O
10	O
October	O
2008	O
Ludwigsburg	O
EclipseCon	O
2009	O
25	O
March	O
2009	O
Los	O
Angeles	O
Eclipse	O
MTL	O
:	O
a	O
Real	O
Standard	O
Alternative	O
for	O
Code	O
Generation	O
Eclipse	O
Summit	O
Europe	O
2009	O
28	O
August	O
2009	O
Ludwigsburg	O
From	O
Acceleo.org	O
to	O
Eclipse	O
Modeling	O
Eclipse	O
Con	O
2010	O
22	O
March	O
2010	O
Los	O
Angeles	O
Acceleo	B-Language
Code	O
Generation	O
:	O
Let	O
's	O
start	O
with	O
an	O
Android	O
example	O
Eclipse	O
Summit	O
Europe	O
2010	O
3	O
November	O
2010	O
Ludwigsburg	O
Creating	O
a	O
Language	O
for	O
Android	O
Apps	O
with	O
Eclipse	O
Modeling	O
Topcased	O
Days	O
2011	O
4	O
February	O
2011	O
Toulouse	O
Acceleo	B-Language
Code	O
Generation	O
2011	O
26	O
May	O
2011	O
Cambridge	O
And	O
you	O
thought	O
you	O
knew	O
template	O
based	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
?	O
</s>
