Some time ago, I wrote an article targeted at developers for TSS; an updated version is here (along with a bunch of related entries in this category (those are links, BTW, hard to tell with your ‘a’ style).

Hi Jack, BTW

Let me know how it goes. I suppose I should have thought that the popularity of code generation would eventually lead to management trying to shove it down our throats. Most of the case studies on the CGN have dealt with engineers who do CG for themselves unbeknownst to management. As popularity grows those salad days may be a thing of the past.

Once the smoke clears, we may not buy anything at all. Based on what I’ve seen, that’s what I’m hoping for. As you’ve suggested before, perhaps I’ll guide them down the path of AndroMDA if they’re dead-set on acquiring a tool. The only problem is that management tends to view a choice of open source as a placeholder while we evaluate commercial products.

I’m not categorically opposed to code generation, and it’s even possible, probable even that there are better tools out there than the simple XDoclet stuff we’re using. So far, though, I also haven’t seen a tool that seems to be worth the absurd prices they’re charging, and particularly, I don’t buy the promises they’re making. I think they solve some problems well, others not so well, enough so that I don’t see it as worthwhile to use the tool as the foundation of our apps instead of simply as a tool.