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UModel® 2011 includes a built-in code generator that creates Java, C#, or Visual Basic .NET code based on the classes in your UML model, freeing you from the mundane task of writing low level infrastructure code so you can concentrate on the business logic and overall architecture of your project.

Take advantage of the source code generated by UModel® 2011 to accelerate the implementation phase of your project and eliminate the unintended errors that can creep into manually written code and prove time-consuming to debug later on.

The UModel® 2011 code generator is based on the same technology used in Altova XMLSpy® and Altova MapForce®. Supplied Java profiles generate industry-standard Java 1.4, Java 5.0, and Java 6.0 code compatible with Eclipse, Borland® JBuilder®, and other popular Java development environments. Profiles for C# 1.2, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, and C# 4.0 generate code for Microsoft® Visual C# .NET®, Borland® C#Builder®, or other C# development environments. Profiles for Visual Basic .NET support VB 7.1, VB 8.0 and VB9.0.

UModel® 2011 provides compatibility for new language constructs introduced in C# 3.0 and VB9.0 that directly support XML. UModel® 2011 also supports named arguments, optional parameters, dynamic programming, co- and contravariance introduced in C# 4.0 during round trip engineering, binary import and sequence diagram generation.

The version for each language is easily selected from a drop-down menu. You can even begin a project in one version and switch in a later development cycle.

Developers who select Java 5.0 or Java 6.0 will appreciate UModel® 2011 support for Java generics as UML templates, with auto-completion and syntax coloring for templates and template bindings. UModel® 2011 also supports C# 2.0 , C# 3.0, C# 4.0, and Visual Basic .NET 8.0 and 9.0 generics, with their strong type checking and instantiation at runtime.

UModel® 2011 also supports Java enumerations, permitting easier definition of collections where all elements are the same type and allowing type errors in those collections to be detected at compile time.

For C# programmers, UModel® 2011 creates code in C# 1.2, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, and C# 4.0. C# is an extended .NET programming language originally based on C++, supporting C# generics with strong type checking and instantiation at runtime. C# generics avoid obscure compile and link errors that can sometimes occur in C++.

To ensure code quality, UModel® 2011 includes a model syntax checker to detect diagram errors or inconsistencies before they are replicated downstream in code.

The program source code created by UModel® 2011 is defined in customizable templates that you can modify to optimize for your compiler or target platform. The templates are written in a simple yet powerful template language called SPL that gives full control over mapping UML 2 diagrams to the primitive data types of your selected programming language.

Using SPL you can easily customize code according to your company's writing conventions, or use specialized base libraries for different compilers.

(If you have already customized the code generation engine in Altova XMLSpy® 2011 or Altova MapForce® 2011 you will recognize the code templates and SPL language used by UModel® 2011.)

The code generation templates provided for standard Java, C#, and Visual Basic .NET statements are stored in separate files from your UModel® 2011 projects. This modularized approach keeps customizations manageable and makes it easy for you to reuse your own templates with new modeling projects. You can even save alternate sets of templates and switch between them to benchmark your UML model in different code implementations.

As UModel® 2011 generates code, the message window logs each file written and confirms success or indicates failure of the process.

If you receive a warning or error message, you can select it and UModel automatically highlights the offending element in the Model Tree. You can then right-click on the element to locate and open the diagrams where it is used. In this illustration, the user forgot to set the Java namespace root before attempting to generate code, resulting in several errors.

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Experience the benefits of trouble-free code generation from UML models for yourself! Download a free 30-day trial of UModel® 2011 right now.