Code Generation in Action Jack Herrington July 2003, Softbound, 350 pages ISBN Our price: $44.95 You can order this book from your bookstore by using the ISBN and title listed above.

Code Generation In Action covers technique and implementation for building high-quality machine-generated code for today's complex applications frameworks. The book includes step-by-step instruction for building dozens of code generators of varying types. These generators build high-quality output that is consistent and maintainable. Code generation abstracts the design of the code so that multiple outputs can be created from a single model of the application functionality, which means development teams can focus on higher-level design work and strategic problems, while still meeting goals for maintaining production applications.. The book covers techniques that range from simple code processors that handle common coding problems to more elaborate and complex generators that maintain entire application tiers.

Code Generation In Action covers building database access, user interface, remote procedure, test cases, and business logic code as well as code for other key system functions.

Although code generation is an engineering technique it also has a large impact on the engineering team and management. The book discusses the non-technical justifications for code generation in depth, and offers practical advice for making code generation succeed in any organization.

What's Inside:

• Code generation models
• Practical examples of database access generation
• Architectures for generators for all of today's popular technologies
• Insight into deployment issues

Who can benefit from this book:

• Senior engineers looking for ways to improve their productivity and the quality of their work.
• Systems architects who want to maintain their design decisions in abstract form and then generate code to match the design.
• Product Managers and Project Managers who wish to understand the desing principles and cultural benefits of code generation techniques

Direct examples are provided on a variety of platforms. These include Java/J2EE, Microsoft¹s ASP and ASP.NET, as well as Open Source solutions such as Perl, Python and PHP.

The support site for the book, the Code Generation Network is already open for business with articles and interviews on code generation topics.

"...an excellent book if you are developing code generation tools, are interested in code generation, or are skeptical about code generation....fascinating and easy to read and understand... I can definitely see where I can use the ideas in my day to day development and design tasks.
-- A reader at Amazon.com

"...will prove itself an excellent and motivating guide, compass, and even dictionary, allowing software engineers, software architects, and managers to get the best value out of code generation techniques..."
-- A reader