Cool:gen

CIS 764, Fall 2007 Presentation

By Mandar Haridas

Outline

What is Cool:gen?
Why is it required?
Comparison with Similar Products
Features
Conclusion

What is Cool:gen ?

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.

What is it used for ?

Cool:gen 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- Cool:gen
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.

Comparison with JDeveloper & RationalRose

JDeveloper works only with Oracle. Cool:gen works with

DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and Informix

JDeveloper generates Java code. Cool:gen 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 Cool:gen. Cool:gens code generation capabilities
are however unmatchable.

Cool:gen Toolset

Data Model in Cool:gen

Page Flow Diagram Feature (Dialog Design)

IEF Model

Generation Defaults for Java code

Generation possible for different DBMS

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.

Some Statistics
Use of Cool:gen 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 < 1 hour

Manual Coding: Zero

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 Cool:gen, 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.

References
Title

Source/Date

Link

Information
Engineering
Facility

Wikipedia,
October 6
2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform
ation_Engineering_Facility

Experiences with
Advantage Gen
6.5 Beta 2

Michel
Coudron,
November
18 2002

http://www.coolprofs.nl/publishne
w/publicaties/coolprofs_6_5_beta_
experiences_edge.pdf

Cool:gen Product
Component
Template

November 1,
2005

http://www.oa.missouri.gov/itsd/ci
o/architecture/domains/application
/PC-AllFusionARC.pdf

Cool:gen History

Ecube
Systems

http://www.ecubesystems.com/coo
lgen.htm

Thank You
Questions ???