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I'm looking for information on how to perform Acceleo source generation with an Ant script. I've done some Googleing, but I haven't really found any straightforward way to do that. I'm looking first to do it in Eclipse, but a headless (is that the right word?) script would also be nice for semi-automatic builds.

Can anyone offer any help? Or are my expectations of what Acceleo can do unreasonable?

Dave
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I believe all you need to do is to use a ant task to call your generation class. The generation class is the one generated along your mtl file that contains an "@main" annotation.

Beware though, the generation will run in standalone mode, so don't use services that rely on eclipse API!

The ant task should look like this:

<java classname="your.generation.class.GenerateJava"
        classpathref="your.classpath.defined.in.ant">
    <arg value="your/input/model/example.uml"/>
    <arg value="your/target/folder" />
</java>

Hope this will help...

Laurent
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  • Thanks, I'll give this a try. We're using an ecore model, does that change anything? Sorry for the noob questions, but I'm new to this kind of source generation. – Dave Nov 03 '11 at 14:27
  • Using an Ecore model won't make any difference, it should be straightforward. – Laurent Nov 03 '11 at 14:29