Grammatical Architectures

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Okay, we admit it.  There is a code generation component to Gramar.  With Gramar you can capture repeatable software architectures and generate (historically speaking) upwards of 95% of a deployable application's implementation (code, config files, <nowiki>HTML</nowiki> and wiki pages, unit test cases, etc.).  But that's just the shiny object in the room.  The real value in using Gramar is that it gives you a way to formally and explicitly describe to others how you want your software built.

Gramar is a tool that helps software architects describe their architectures in the most consumable form possible: tools that generate the code they care about while leaving developers the freedom to develop the business logic that the developers care about.

**Gramar helps you pay off the technical debt before you even have a chance to accrue it.**

If you're writing a one-off custom application then there's an advanced usage of Gramar that could really speed up your development, but the more common use for Gramar is by those developers who are building applications on popular platforms, like Spark, Kafka, MapReduce, Storm, Sqoop, J2EE (servlets, EJB, message beans, etc.), Eclipse and IntelliJ tooling, Portals, public and proprietary middleware, and on and on.
 
Go  [[Gramar_Defined|here]] to learn more about what an individual gramar is and does.

Read about the [[Gramar_Development_Process]].

=== Background ===

Gramar is a next-generation greenfield implementation of Eclipse Model-to-Text JET and, before that, the Design Pattern Toolkit from IBM.  A gramar can be applied not just in Eclipse, but in IntelliJ, as a stand-alone java application, within a web application or in any other environment with a Java runtime.

== Getting started ==

  * [[http://github.com/chrisgerken/gramar|Source code]]
  * [[https://github.com/chrisGerken/gramar/wiki|Development Wiki]]
  * [[https://github.com/chrisGerken/gramar/wiki/Extension-org.gramar.base|Base Gramar tags and XPath functions]]
  * [[http://gramar.org/javadoc/v1.0.0/index.html|Latest Gramar Javaoc]]

=== Eclipse Support ===

There are several Eclipse plugins providing support for Gramar in Eclipse.  To install those plugins, 

  * In Eclipse, goto `Help -> Install new software...`
  * **Add...** a new update site with the <nowiki> URL http://gramar.org/eclipse/gramar  </nowiki>
  * Install all features on the site.
  * Repeat with update site <nowiki> URL http://gramar.org/eclipse/xaa </nowiki>

== Coming soon ==

* Better HTML doc for the base tags and functions
* Gramar as a versioned maven artifact
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