What it is

code2code is an eclipse plugin to generate source code from templates.

You can easily create your custom generators using known template engines: Groovy (JSP like), Freemarker or Velocity.

See it in action here.

Creating a Generator

The files:

HelloWorld.generator
  |-- templates
      |-- HelloWorldTemplate.txt.ftl
  |-- templates.ftl
  |-- params.ftl

Contents of HelloWorldTemplate.txt.ftl:

Hello ${name}!!!

Contents of params.ftl:

name=World

Contents of templates.ftl:

templates/HelloWorldTemplate.txt.ftl=src/destinationPath/HelloWorld.txt

Usage

Installing generators: just create a folder named "generators" at the root of your project, and place your generators there.

Running generators: The plugin adds a “Generate…” option to your project context menu (right-click menu). Run it, choose one of your installed generators, set its parameters, and the plugin will generate the files to the right place.

See it in action here: Quickly cruding with code2code plugin and VRaptor2.

Installation

Current version is 0.9.2 beta, tested against Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.2.

You can install it from the Update Site

Documentation

http://wiki.github.com/srizzo/code2code

Issues/Features

http://github.com/srizzo/code2code/issues

Generator Examples

http://github.com/srizzo/code2code-example-generators/downloads