My 2 cents HTML export for the WC 2010 application

I would like to go further with the Eclipse World Cup 2010 application, to help skeptical people to believe in modeling technologies. The EEF team created an RCP 'forecasts' game. Yersterday, someone said that exporting the results in HTML could improve this game. No sooner said than done.

The RCP application comes with a metamodel project : 'fr.obeo.dsl.worldcupforecast'.

Here is a short description of how to make a simple HTML generator with Acceleo, based on this 'forecasts' metamodel.

It is recommended to use a bottom-up approach when developing generators; Acceleo eases this process by allowing you to initialize the content of a generation module with an HTML example, and offering specific actions to transform these examples (static text) in dynamic OCL expressions.

Let's create the 'results.html' example file which contains an image and a single row line.

We create the code generation project with the new HTML code generation file.

The main template is initialized with the example content. It is based on the 'forecasts' metamodel.

We would like to create a row line for each player, starting from the best to the least score. Thus, we create a 'for' statement to iterate over the players.

Finally, we run the coge generator on the forecasts model. It's done!

Note that you can directly access the online model in your launcher.

Here are the files : the results page, the Acceleo project, the MTL file.