Cool:gen

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Coolgen

• CIS 764, Fall 2007 Presentation
• By Mandar Haridas

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Outline

• What is Coolgen?
• Why is it required?
• Comparison with Similar Products
• Features
• Conclusion

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What is Coolgen ?

• Model Driven Application Tool
• Supports development of web based applications,
• enterprise wide client-server applications as
  well as more
• traditional applications (mainframe)
• Enterprise-designed tool that generates code
  (e.g. ASP, JAVA, COBOL etc.) for the complete
  solution, including application logic,
  communications infrastructures, web servers, and
  browser interfaces.
• Maintenance occurs in the models code
  (Information Engineering Facility IEF), not the
  generated code.

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What is it used for ?

• Coolgen provides an environment of application
  development tools linked together by an
  underlying framework that provides flexibility in
  development.
• It also includes a set of Encyclopedia tools that
  provide model management, public interfaces to
  third-party products and reverse engineering of
  non- Coolgen applications.
• Deployment options include choosing operating
  systems, languages, middleware, and databases
• Intended to shield the developer from the
  complexities of building complete multi-tier
  cross-platform applications.

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Comparison with JDeveloper RationalRose

• JDeveloper works only with Oracle. Coolgen works
  with DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and Informix
• JDeveloper generates Java code. Coolgen writes
  code in native syntax (Information Engineering
  Facility, IEF). This code can be translated into
  Java, C, Cobol, VB etc
• IEF code is more English like. Hence it is
  ideal to be used in Design Modeling Phase.
• Design features of Rational Rose are more
  extensive than that of Coolgen. Coolgens code
  generation capabilities are however unmatchable.

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Coolgen Toolset
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Data Model in Coolgen
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Page Flow Diagram Feature (Dialog Design)
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IEF Model
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Generation Defaults for Java code
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Generation possible for different DBMS
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Features and Benefits .

• Ensures integrity and consistency in total
  delivery process at all times.
• Provides 100 generation of data, complex logic,
  communications and presentation application
  components from high-level graphically rich
  specifications.
• Provides applications for a variety of
  platforms, operating systems, databases and
  languages.
• Provides technology independence to guard against
  environmental lock-in and to support portability
  and interoperability among the multiple
  environments.

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Some Statistics

• Use of Coolgen results in the following gains
• (compared to applications in which it is not
  used)
• Development Productivity Ratio 2.1 to 5.1
• Design Errors (in numbers) 50 to 75 less
• Design Error Corrections 50 Fix lt 1 hour
• Manual Coding Zero

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Conclusion

• Provides a uniform integrated structured
• Model/framework to develop new applications,
  provides a sound approach for organizations to
  quickly transition to new platforms without deep
  technical expertise on the new target environment
  and without rewriting code
• With Coolgen, maintenance of applications is
  very easy as every process is defined during the
  design stage and any changes in the design will
  automatically reflect in the end product. No
  manual coding required.
• Accelerated systems development It uses
  state-of-the-art multi-platform GUI controls and
  RAD tools to deliver powerful applications fast.

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References
Title Source/Date Link
Information Engineering Facility Wikipedia, October 6 2007 http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Engineering_Facility
Combining Information Engineering and Object Orientation with AllFusion Plex William A. Hunt, October 2006 http//www.ca.com/files/WhitePapers/combining_info_engineer_allfusion_plex_wp.pdf
Experiences with Advantage Gen 6.5 Beta 2 Michel Coudron, November 18 2002 http//www.coolprofs.nl/uploads/coolprofs_6_5_beta_experiences_edge.pdf
Coolgen Product Component Template January 11, 2005 http//www.oa.missouri.gov/itsd/cio/architecture/domains/application/PC-AllFusionARC.pdf
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Thank You

• Questions ???