- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (July 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930110979
- ISBN-13: 978-1930110977
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #841,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Covering technique and implementation for building code for complex applications frameworks, this book demonstrates how to build high-quality output that is consistent and maintainable. Lessons on abstracting the design of the code so that multiple outputs can be created from a single abstract model of the application functionality are provided. Techniques that range from using simple code processors to handle common coding problems to creating more elaborate and complex generators that maintain entire application tiers are covered. Topics such as building database access, user interface, remote procedure, test cases, and business logic code are also addressed, as is code for other system functions. Although code generation is an engineering technique, it also has an impact on engineering teams and management, an aspect of code generation that is covered in depth in this resource.
About the Author
Jack Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks. All of which make great holiday gifts and are available online here, and at your local bookstore. Jack also writes articles for O'Reilly, DevX and IBM Developerworks.
Jack lives with his wife, daughter and two adopted dogs. When he is not writing software, books or articles you can find him on his bike, running or in the pool training for triathlons. You can keep up with Jack's work and his writing at http://jackherrington.com.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ultimately Disappointing,
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This review is from: Code Generation in Action (Paperback)
There are things I like about this book, and the topic is certainly timely, but this falls down the same rabbit hole many books do: the examples are just paltry and do not add up to a book-length treatment. Little is done to convince the reader that the code generation option in each case was the best solution. For instance, in the case of SQL statements, there are countless other options. What makes this approach superior? One gets the feeling that the answer is the author just needed another example to paper his undertaking with. Some of the sections are downright preposterous in their brevity. There's a section on generating Swing dialog boxes. It contains almost nothing but a silly diagram that looks like a data flow. A good book on this subject would have used a real object oriented language to implement the generators, and would have showed the abundant design patterns that would apply to this problem (Builder, Bridge, etc.). One imagines that there could be many reuse opportunities in the generation framework. Code generation in some of the proto-MDA tools (like Eclipse's EMF, for instance) or the JET project show a lot more promise.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great introductory material on code generation,
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This review is from: Code Generation in Action (Paperback)
The introduction and motivation are quite compelling, though a bit more detail on the dismissal of passive code generators (i.e. wizards) and focus on active code generators would be nice. The examples are also quite practical and seem high quality, though the use of Ruby is going to be a barrier to some.There was one guest-written chapter that might as well have been elided, or should at least have been more edited to integrate cleanly. It repeated a lot of what had been said earlier, and could've just jumped straight to the point instead. Finally, the code samples were a little repetitive in places. I would've preferred the book were shorter, with more info at the level between high-level and code (i.e. what does it make sense to paramaterize, and how should your generator work) rather than focusing either at the high level of 'architecture' or the low-level of 'how a single variable replacement works'. Still, an excellent book, and quite a good introduction for those who don't use code generators already.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not very useful when the examples are written in RUBY!!,
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This review is from: Code Generation in Action (Paperback)
There's a lot of why and what but almost no "how" here, unless you want to learn a language called Ruby. He doesn't even give much in the way of Ruby code, either. It's mainly a lot of complicated program diagrams that look like an ad for Visio. If you want to read ABOUT code generation, buy it. If you want to see actual code generation, skip it.Sorry, I can't jump on this bandwagon.
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