Documentation

Installation and Quickstart

This section gathers the documentation describing Acceleo's installation and use within the Eclipse Development Environnment.

Installing Acceleo with the update site
The update site is the best way to install Acceleo. This update site makes it easier to stay up to date [..]
Quickstart
This quick-start is here to make it very easy for you to catch up with Acceleo. This is not a training course, just a little help to start with [..]

Tutorials

These tutorials describe the use of Acceleo as would a developer launching code generation, but also as would an architect building his own software factories.

First generator module
In this tutorial we will tackle the creation of a generator module. A generator module is a set of templates generating text from a model (UML for instance) [..]
Developer Tutorial
Describes the use of Acceleo generators for the project teams, setting up launching chains, providing an iterative development cycle [..]
Architect Tutorial
Practical use case of creating generation templates, using many metamodels, targeting different technologies, customizing existing modules [..]
Using Acceleo with GMF
This tutorial demonstrates how Acceleo can be deployed with GMF to achieve a MDE platform based on “Domain Specific Modelers”. Using these technologies will allow users to create customized specific modelers and to generate code [..]
Export a generator as a Plug-In
This document explains how one may export a generator as a Plug-In. The generator is then deployable in any Eclipse instance. [..]

Reference Guides

User Guide
Describing features, installation guide, wizard documentation, references, services and advices [..]
Technical Reference
Services and syntax documentation [..]

Development documentation

The internal architecture documentation or use of Acceleo's API are gathered in the development section. You'll also find there the past, present and future of the project.

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