Chapter 4.  Meta-Models And Template Directories

This chapter gives an example of building a JeeWiz Meta-model. This assumes you have read the overview of meta-class and meta-models.

There are three parts to defining and using a meta-model:

• the specification of the meta-model. The (generated) documentation of meta-models is in the JeeWiz Meta-Model Reference chapter. The key attributes to set here are
  • name
  • package
  • descriptiveName
• the creation of the directory to hold the meta-model. This directory is referred to in meta-model (and rendering) inheritance.
• the description of the generate-time template directory (which holds the jar for the meta-model). This is in the model.properties file in the meta-model's control directory.
  
  There is a 'package' property in this file. This is required for building meta-models (but not for other uses) and must match the package attribute in the meta-model. If these names do not match, the meta-model Java classes will not be found during the build.

4.1  Basics

4.2  Creating And Building A New Meta-Model