Fact Sheet: SNIP Code Pattern Engine
SNIP
Advanced Code Pattern Engine
SNIP is the enabling element in applying patterns in the software manufacturing process. It offers these features:
- Accepts multiple forms of model/metadata input (UML XMI, XML, Java, SQL DDL, MOF, DSM metadata)
- Highly effective template language for traversing models and generating components
- Generates any number and types of files in a single pass
- Compiles metadata and supplies a complete set of cross-reference links for use during code generation
- Full control over directory and file creation
- Preserves code within protected regions in generated files
- UI for rapidly converting hand crafted code into templates
- Ability to extract metadata from existing systems, enabling use of patterns in extending/re-engineering systems
Typical Applications
| Input | => Generate |
| XML Descriptions | => Custom Software Components |
| UML Models | => Target Language Components |
| ERD Models | => Custom Schema Design Policies, Triggers, Etc. |
| ODBC Metadata | => Data Access Components |
| Java Classes | => Framework Extension Classes and Interfaces |
... to name just a few
Reference
Software Manufacturing - Best practices
Apply frameworks and component creation rules to achieve outstanding results.
The SW Mfg Approach
Model Driven Development
There are two major steps in implementing a software manufacturing approach.
First, establish your component design by prototyping a selective few components. These components define your implementation patterns.
Second, use SNIP to develop a template for producing like components from models/metadata.
In this way you create an assembly line for these types of components, and reduce the effort to develop such components to a matter of specification.