With the Architect mode, Mia-Generation provides you with a complete graphical environement to define your own code generation rules or adapt existing ones

A generator is defined within a project.

Scripts (templates or Java macros) are defined within packages to augment modularity and facilitate reuse of generation rules between generators.

Any complex generation can be defined through a Scenario.

The generation engine is based on the templating mechanism.

• In black : the text generated "as is".
• In green : variable parts replaced at generation time depending on the evaluation of a model element.

Available scripts are accessible through code completion

Tags definition.

Each template can define tags (BeginTag and EndTag) to delimit hand-coded fragments.

Mia-generation will preserve the code between those tags each time the file is regenerated.

Generation rules which can't be defined with a template (string manipulation, navigation in the model, etc...) can be written directly in Java.

Mia-Generation provides syntax highlighting and code completion on Java macros too.

It is possible to set a breakpoint on a script and define the elements of the model for which the generation has to be stopped.

You can navigate through references between scripts :

• Who is calling me
• Which scripts do I call ?
• Where the called scripts are defined ?
• etc...

It is very easy to navigate through the model and visualize links between model elements and each basic property

To understand the way a generation is processed, a graphical trace shows each step :

• Source of the script executed
• Object on which the script has been evaluated
• The generated code fragment

From the trace, you can access directly to the script editor or to the model browser.