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| <p>The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate code generation with |
| Xpand from EMF models. The process we are going to go through, will start |
| by defining a metamodel (using EMF tooling), coming up with some example |
| data, writing code generation templates, running the generator and finally |
| adding some constraint checks.</p> |
| <p>The actual content of the example is rather trivial – we will |
| generate Java classes following the JavaBean conventions. The model will |
| contain entities (such as <span class="type">Person</span> or <span class="type">Vehicle</span>) |
| including some attributes and relationships among them – a rather typical |
| data model. From these entities in the model, we want to generate the |
| Beans for implementation in Java. In a real setting, we might also want to |
| generate persistence mappings, etc. We will not do this for this simple |
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