How-to Guides

A few guides have been written to make it easier to get started using AndroMDA on your projects, on this page you will find the links to those guides.

• A bird's eye view of AndroMDA
  
  A step-by-step user guide for people new to AndroMDA
  
  This user guide is a user contribution and aims at an audience which is familiar with Java (and preferably J2EE), but new to AndroMDA or MDA in general.
• Project Generator
  
  This getting started guide is *highly* recommended newbie material.
  
  Explains how to set up a new project template in which you use AndroMDA to generate code from your UML model. The project templates have been specifically designed for J2EE applications.
• Bpm4Struts Cartridge
  
  This howto will teach you how to model your presentation layer.
  
  Bpm4Struts is a cartridge that is able to generate Struts code from activity graphs and use-cases. This guide briefly explains the way you should approach and eventually model your application's architecture.
• Spring Cartridge
  
  This howto will teach you how to model your persistence and application layer, also recommended for people using the EJB and/or Hibernate cartridges.
  
  The Spring cartridge is used to generate your application's back end, it generates Spring services (optionally wrapped by Session EJBs) using Hibernate POJOs for persistence.
• Manageable Entities
  
  Generate all your CRUD features in a matter of minutes
  
  Explains what is needed to generate CRUD pages, services and DAOs. This feature generates an administration console for your entities that works out-of-the-box, and that will perfectly integrate with the existing application.
• AndroMDA Server
  
  Significantly speedup the code generation process
  
  In this short howto you'll learn what the AndroMDA server can do for you and how to configure and start it.