Comparison of code generation tools

Product	Creator	Platform	First public release	Latest stable version	Software license
A Xomega.Net plugin for Visual Studio[1]	Xomega.Net	Windows	2010	6.6 / 2015-10-11	Proprietary
Acceleo	Obeo	cross-platform (Java / Eclipse)	2006	3.5.0 / 2014-06-10	Eclipse Public
Accelerator	Surround Technologies	Windows, Web, Mobile (C# / .NET)	2007	6.2	Proprietary
actifsource	actifsource GmbH	cross-platform (Java / Eclipse)		4.6.3 / 2011-08-09	Proprietary
Apeel PHP Code Generator Pro	City Business Logic	Windows	2001	11.03b / 2011-09-04	Proprietary
AtomWeaver	Isomeris	Windows	2010	1.3.1 / 2012-02-20	Proprietary
Celerio	Jaxio[2]	cross-platform (Java)	2015	4.0.2 / 2015-11-16	Apache License 2.0
Click2Code	onlinewebtech	windows	2013	1.0 / 2013-09-20	Proprietary
Code4Green	Code4Green	Web - Free Online	2009	1.0	Proprietary
Code-g flexible pattern based code generator	Abstractmeta	Java		0.30 / 2012-05-20	Apache License 2.0
CodeBhagat	CodeBhagat LLC	Windows (C# / .NET)	2014	1.0 / 2014	Proprietary
CodeCooker	CodeCooker	Web - Free Online	2014	0.5.1 / 2014-07-02	Proprietary
CodeFluent Entities	SoftFluent	Windows	2005	840 - 2016	Proprietary
CodeGenerator360		Windows (Online Tool)	2011		Proprietary
Code generation plugin for Astah UML Community	José Carreno	cross-platform	2014	1.3.0_GA / 2014-05-08	Free
Code OnTime	Code On Time LLC	Windows (c# / .NET)			Proprietary and Subscription
CodeSmith Generator	CodeSmith Tools	Windows	2004	7.1.0 / 2015-08-10	Proprietary
Cog	Ned Batchelder	cross-platform (Python)		2.1	MIT
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit	Semantic Designs	Windows	2001	2.0	Proprietary
DRAKON	Stepan Mitkin	cross-platform (Tcl/Tk)	2011	1.27 / 2016-03-10	Free
EntiPro	EntiCraft	Windows			Proprietary
EazyCode	Datacraft	Windows	2004	7.1 / 2014-09-08	Proprietary
Flowchart to Code	Athek	Windows	2013	1.0 / 2013-01-10	Proprietary
GenerateXY	DotXY	Windows		5.1	Proprietary
generjee[3]	Alexander Derksen	cross-platform (Java)	2015	1.0	Proprietary
Genexus	Genexus	Cross Platform (multiple)	1991-2016	Evolution 3	Proprietary
Genshi (templating language)	Edgewall Software	cross-platform (Python)	2006-08-03	0.5.1 / 2008-07-09
GSL Universal Code Generator	iMatrix	cross-platform		Jan 30, 2015	GPLv3+
Iron Speed Designer	Iron Speed, Inc.	Windows	2001	9.2.0 / 2013-12-18	Proprietary
JCodeBox		cross-platform (Java)			Proprietary
Jigy Generator	GetJigy	Eclipse & Netbeans	2014	1.0.1 / 2014-10-17	Proprietary
Jinja (Template engine)	Pocoo team	cross-platform (Python)		2.1.1	BSD
JPA Modeler	Gaurav Gupta	cross-platform (Java)	2014	1.7 / 2016-06-07	Apache License 2.0
Kid (templating language)	Ryan Tomayko	cross-platform (Python)		0.9.6 / 2006-12-20
kiss! C#, VB.Net and SQL Script Generator	Cove Bay Software Limited	Windows	2013	4.0.0.0 / 2015-05-05	Proprietary
LayerCake Generator .NET	Delphin Habierre	Windows (C# / .NET)	2013	3.7.1 / 2015-09-06	Free / OpenSource
Linx 5 beta	Twenty57	Windows .NET 4.5 C#	2008	5	Proprietary
Mako	Michael Bayer	cross-platform (Python)		0.2.3 / 2008-05-12	MIT
M-Power	mrc	cross-platform (Java)	2004		Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch	Microsoft	Windows	2011	2011-07-26	Proprietary
MinuteProject (Velocity, DB, WSDL)	Florian Adler	cross-platform (Java)	2004	0.8.3 / 2013-06-05	Apache License 2.0,GPL
MOLGENIS	Morris Swertz[4]	cross-platform (Java)	2004	3.3	LGPLv3
NoORM	Ulf Pietruschka	cross-platform (Java)	2013	1.0.0 / 2013-11-19	Apache License 2.0
OMS.Ice – T4 Text Template Generator	Olaf Meyer	Windows ( .NET )	2012	1.4 / 2012-05-30	Eclipse Public
OpenMDX		cross-platform (Java)	2004-01-28	2.4 / 2009-03-26	BSD
OutSystems Platform	OutSystems	cross-platform (.Net, Java)	2001	9.0 / 2014-09-24	Proprietary
Application Builder	projecz.com	PHP	2014	1.0 / 2014-03-20	Proprietary
PHPRunner	Xlinesoft	Windows	2003	5.3 / 2010-10-15	Proprietary
Radarc Online	Icinetic	Android, iOS, Windows (C#/XAML, Java, Objective C)	2012	1.2.0 / 2014-11-04	Proprietary
Reegenerator	Kodeo Limited	Windows (C#, VB.Net)	2010	2.0.5 / 2014-01-26	Proprietary
ribosome	Martin Sustrik	cross-platform (Ruby, JavaScript or Python)	2014	1.15 / 2015-07-08	MIT
Stadium	Twenty57 (http://stadium.twenty57.com)	Windows	2005	2015	Proprietary
T4	Microsoft	Windows	2005	2010	Proprietary
Telosys Tools	OW2	cross-platform (Java : Eclipse)	2011	2.1.0 / 2014-04-02	Eclipse Public License
Umple	University of Ottawa	cross-platform (Java / Eclipse)	2010	1.23.0 / 2015-12-21	MIT
Velocity apache	Apache Software Foundation	cross-platform (Java)		1.6.2 / 2009-03-19	Apache License 2.0
X2X	Triple-S GmbH	Windows	2005	X2X-2015	Proprietary
XACT X4MR	Applied Conversion Technologies Inc	Virtual DOS	1994	3 / 1997-08-01	Proprietary
ZumCoder MDD/MDA/ Template Based	Agen Consultoria – Adilson de ALmeida Pedro	Web – Online		1.0	Proprietary

Technical[edit]

Name	Implementation Language	Active; Passive [5]	Model[5]	Typical input	Other input	Typical output
A Xomega.Net plugin for Visual Studio	C#, XSL, XSD	Active	Mixed	User-defined models, XML	Templates, Import from DB	User Interface (HTML5, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight), Service Layer (REST, WCF), Business Layer (EF), DAL, DB scripts, Config files, VS project files, Xomega Framework objects
Acceleo	Java	Active	Tier	User-defined EMF based models (UML, Ecore, user defined metamodels)	Any EMF based input (Xtext DSLs, GMF graphical models, etc.)	Any textual language.
Accelerator	C#	Active	Tier	Database schema	XML Schema, Templates and configuration tables	C#, WPF, ASP.NET, MVC, ASP.NET, WCF, WebServices(complete application)
actifsource	Java	Active	Tier	User-defined Models	Import from UML, Ecore.	Any textual language.
any<code/>	Java	Active	Tier	User-defined models	Custom templates (Groovy)	Any textual language, depends on your template code. Built-in directives in Java, JPA, Objective-C added since v1.2.0
Appsroller Web Form Generator	Javascript	Active	Web Tier	Any code	Javascript
Apeel PHP Code Generator Pro	Delphi	Passive	Tier	Database schema	PHP, HTML, CSS	Full Application – PHP, CSS, Apeel Open Source Framework.
AtomWeaver	C++, Lua	Active	Tier	Tree models built using a cooperative template system, based on the ABSE modeling approach	Code in any language	Any textual language
Celerio	Java	Active	Tier	Database schema Convention over Configuration and Configuration	Custom templates (velocity)	Any textual language but traditionally Java/Html/Xml/etc.
Click2Code for windows	VB6	Active	Mixed	User-defined Templates	Templates	User Interface
Code4Green	C#, VB.net, ASP.net, SharePoint, SQL, JAVA, classical ASP, HTML, XML	Active	Tier	Code4Green - an online ultimate code generation tool with a green cause of plantation of trees on each 10,000 LOC	Code in C#, VB.net, ASP.net, SharePoint, SQL, JAVA, classical ASP, HTML, XML	Output determined by the selected language type. It is a plain text.
CodeCooker	Javascript	Active	Mixed	UML		C#, C++ and CoffeeScript classes
CodeFluent Entities	C#	Active	Mixed	User-defined models, Database schema	Templates	.NET classes, Persistence layers (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle,PostgreSQL, MySQL), WCF Services, ASP .NET websites...
CodeSmith Generator	C#, VB.NET, JavaScript	Active	Mixed	Database schema (ADOX, DB2 zOS, ISeries, MySQL, Oracle, Postgre, SQL Anywhere, SQL Compact, SQL Server, SQLite, VistaDB), C# or VB.NET source code, Any meta data source.. E.G., Web Services, SharePoint, UML, XSD, XML, DBML, EDMX, JSON, HBM, HTML and more...	Templates	Any textual output such as C#, VB.NET, C/C++, XML, SQL, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, or any other plain text format.
CodeGenerator360	C#	Active	Tier	Database Schema	XML Schema	Stored Procedures, .NET DAL, C# ASP.NET Pages, Visual Studio 2010 Solution and Project Files
CodeOnTime	C#	Active		Database Tables	Templates and Various XML configuration tables	C# ASP.NET
Cog	Python	Active[6]	Mixed	Any code	Java C# C++ C Perl Python Ruby TCL Javascript Fortran Lisp Scheme Cobol XSLT JSP PHP Yacc SQL XML System Configuration Files
C++ Middleware Writer	C++	Active		DSL instance / Middle file	Include files	C++ marshalling code
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit	Several code generation DSLs (attribute grammars, tree patterns, source-to-source rewrites)	Active	DSLs represented as abstract syntaxtrees	DSL instance	Well-formed output language code fragments	Any programming language (proven for C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, COBOL)
DRAKON	Tcl/Tk	Active	Tier	User-defined flowchart model drawn in the editor	Flowchart in SQLite database in documented structure	Java, Go, D, C#, C/C++ (with Qt support), Python, Tcl, Javascript, Lua, Erlang, AutoHotkey, Verilog. Extensible.
EazyCode	C#, VB.Net	Active	Tier	Database schema	Templates	Application and Code in ASP.Net, ASP.Net MVC, C#, VB.Net, WPF, WCF Services, SQL Query, SQL Stored Procedure, BAL, DAL, POCO
GenerateXY	Java	Active	Tier	User-defined Models	XML, CSV, Java, ... (extensible)	Any textual language, predefined modules for Java, HTML, XML
generjee	Java	Passive	Tier	Online-editor, user-defined models		Full Java EE Application
Genexus	Multiple languages	Active	Compenium	Complete application generator including desktop, mobile (iOS, Android, Windows) cloud etc.	KB, Libraries, iOS, Android and other library.	From simple to complex applications, with business objects, rules, screen, knowledge base, with db and code choices (e.g. C#, Java, Ruby, etc. plus management/generation. Also reverse engineering for legacy upgrades.
GNU AutoGen	C	Active	Tier	Autogen definitions (lists of key-value pairsor hierarchical data arranged like C structs), Autogen templates (fixed output plus inline macros for conditional or repetitive emission of code blocks or evaluation of Bourne shell orScheme expressions)	XML, CGI data	Output determined by template (any language or even plain text); additional support for emitting header guards, certain licenses, option parsers, andfinite state machines in C
GSL Universal Code Generator	C	Active	Tier	gsl script, xml models		Any textual language
gSOAP	C / C++			WSDL specifications		C / C++ code that can be used to communicate with WebServices. XML with the definitions obtained.
Iron Speed Designer	C# / VB.NET	Active	Tier	Database schema	CSS	ASP.NET (Full application, including C# code, VB code, XML, Stored Procedures, etc.)
Isis	Java pojos	Active [7]	Mixed	Isis Java code: Domain Design	optionally JSON (for layout hints)	Java code: Apache Wicket JAX-RSDataNucleus Apache Shiro
Jigy Generator	Java	Active	MVC	Just fill out a SIMPLE form	N/A	A Spring MVC Java Web Application Compatible with Either Eclipse or Netbeans Based on the User's Preferences
Jostraca	Java	Active [8]	Tier	Any code	Java	Any code; Java, JSP
JCodeBox	Java		Tier	Java		Java (Full Web Application)
kiss!	C#, VB.Net, SQL	Active	Mixed	Database as Data Model	Templates	C#, VB.Net classes, SQL, Schema Information as comma separated values (*.cs, *.vb, *.sql, *.csv)
LayerCake Generator .NET	C#, SMO API, T4 Templating	Active	Mixed	Microsoft SQL Server Database schema	Templates	Visual Studio Solution, SOA Architecture, Application Layers
Linx	C#	Active	Tier	Process Design from Linx designer	-	.NET Process (dll) and Windows Service
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch	C# / VB.NET	Active	Tier	Database schema		Complete Silverlight application (Desktop or Web)
MinuteProject	Java code	Active; Passive	Mixed	Database WSDL	config, velocity files	Java code: ORM entities, DAO, Webservices, Full application with proven framework stack: JPA
NoORM	Java	Active	Mixed	Database schema	Templates	Java classes (Persistence layer with proxy classes for database tables and views, DML code and services for stored procedures and declared queries with support for Oracle)
OMS.Ice – T4 Text Template Generator	C#	Active	Mixed	T4 text template, C# or VB	C# partial classes	Any textual output such as C#, VB, C/C++, XML, or any other plain text format
OutSystems Platform	.Net	Active	Tier	User defined models based on the OutSystems visual modelling language	Java, C#, Javascript, HTML5, CSS	ASP.Net and JEE
PHPRunner	PHP/ASP/C#/VB.NET	Active	Tier	Database schema	PHP, ASPX, HTML, CSS,	PHP, ASP, ASP.NET (Full Web application, including C#, VB.NET, PHP, ASP code, HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.)
Pro*C			Inline	SQL in C		C
Radarc Online	C#/Angular.js/Node.js	Active	Mixed	WYSIWYG UI/Data Layer Editor	Templates	User Interface Layer, Services Layer, Business Logic Layer, Data Access Layer, Database, IoC, Test... (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows)
Reegenerator	C#, VB.Net, XSD	Active	Mixed	User-defined Templates	Database, XSD, XML, C# or VB.Net Code	C#, VB.Net, SQL, Any other textual language
ribosome	Ruby, JavaScript or Python	Active	Mixed	Any format that can be read by Ruby, JavaScript or Python	Code generation script in Ruby, JavaScript or Python	any text document(s)
Scalagen	Scala	Passive	Tier	Database		Scala ORM code
Spring Roo	Java	Active	Tier	Java and automatically-introspected project metadata	Shell commands	Java (Full Web Application including Java source, AspectJ source, XML, JSP, Spring application contexts, build tools, property files etc.)
Stadium	C#	Passive&Active	Mixed	Web Application design using Stadium designer	Databases & SQL scripts	.NET Solution with C# sources, Bootstrap CSS, JQuery
T4		Passive		T4 Template/Text File		Any text format such as XML,XAML, C# files or just plain text files.
TLGen	Java	Active	Mixed	Database schema (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), XML (domain model UML exported XML)	Import from UML domain model (XML), Import from DB	Java source classes (EJB3 persistence layer, data classes with interfaces. Session Beans, Entity Managers and Entity Bean source classes. Message Beans. Web Services (SOAP, REST). JUnit Test classes.). DB SQLs
Umple	Java	Active	Tier	Java, C++, PHP, Ruby with embedded Umple code	Pure Umple code describing associations, patterns, state machines etc.	Java, C++, PHP, Ruby, ECcore, Umlet, Yuml, Textuml, JSON, Papyrus XMI
Velocity apache	Java	Passive [9]	Tier	Any code	Java	Java
X2X	C++	Active	Mixed	Any textual format	CSV export from Excel-Sheet	Any textual language
XACT X4MR	C	Passive		Language_A Source, Language_A-to-Language_B Transform Rules	CHILL, CMS2, FORTRAN, COBOL, JOVIAL, PASCAL, PL/1, PLM86	Compilable Language_B Source; Application_A Documentation; Application_B Documentation
XDocLet		Active	Munger	JavaDoc		EJB support beans
ZumCoder/MDA	PHP	Passive	Mixed	XSD, DBML, Database Schema(Mysql,SqlServer,PostegreSQL,SQLite),HTML forms,PHP class and (ZML "ZumCoder Model Language", a XML define structure	Templates	Any textual language, depends upon your template code, you can write your own template to outputs the language of your preference

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ http://www.xomega.net
2. Jump up^ http://www.jaxio.com/en
3. Jump up^ http://www.generjee.com
4. Jump up^ Swertz, Morris A.; de Brock, E. O. (Bert); van Hijum, Sacha A. F. T.; de Jong, Anne; Buist, Girbe; Baerends, Richard J. S.; Kok, Jan; Kuipers, Oscar P.; Jansen, Ritsert C. (2004). "Molecular Genetics Information System (MOLGENIS): alternatives in developing local experimental genomics databases". Bioinformatics 20 (13): 2075–83.doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth206. PMID 15059831.
5. ^ Jump up to:^a b [1]
6. Jump up^ "Cog". Ned Batchelder. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
7. Jump up^ Isis does not generate any code, the metamodel is used only at runtime
8. Jump up^ [2] Archived October 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
9. Jump up^ "Open source tools are available that make the task of developing passive code generators all but trivial. One such offering is Velocity from the Apache Software Foundation". My.safaribooksonline.com. Retrieved 2014-01-24.