Automatic code generation with business logic by capturing attributes from user interface via XML

摘要

The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based development tools like .NET framework, Windows Builder, Net beans are popular for easier and comparably faster project development which is also need of an hour. These tools have capabilities of Drag and Drop (DND) with tool box with controls which help developer to design Graphical User Interface (GUI) just with mouse click. But, none of these tools can generate complete working code with “Business Logic” (BL) embedded automatically in source code. In routine development process developer spends time to do the repeated task of coding for same events. The vendor specific tools like Oracle Application Express (OAE), Microsoft VB.Net and similar tools from IBM can design and develop the products for analysis and reporting purpose but these tools strictly need the proprietary DB to develop the project. The OAE from ORACLE needs ORACLE as a backend whereas IBM needs DB2. Moreover none of these tools give working code with BL in any language. Our tool - “Rapid Project Builder” (RPB) addresses these problems thereby avoiding the time consuming task of coding the same business logic repeatedly. The tool also performs Automatic Code Generation (ACG) in specific language like C++, Java, etc. Once the application's UI with DND is designed along with the specification of form and fields of various controls like text box, label, buttons and the like with operations like add, delete, search or modify for button of the application, RPB automatically embed code of BL to these controls in language code. The ACG with BL, automatic DB generation with tables and validation code generation is done with the help of UI specifications which are stored as XML Meta file.