Leveraging Service-Orientation for Combining Code Generation Frameworks

In this paper, we leverage service-orientation as a means for combining the strengths of the UML-based code generator framework AndroMDA for generating static application aspects with code generators focussing on the dynamic aspects. The latter are developed with Genesys, a code generation framework that combines the ideas of model-driven development and service-orientation in order to enable a high-level engineering of code generators. This demonstrates a new level of reusability and even has the potential for full code generation, which elegantly eliminates the need for the typical round-trip engineering in model-driven development environments. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach by means of an example from the field of bioinformatics.