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TigerTeam TRIMM - Model Driven Generator just went Open Source

TigerTeam TRIMM – Model Driven Generator is just Open Sourced in July 2013. I myself never heard of this product before and found this product by coincidence as I tried to find a JPA 2 standalone cartridge / generator available in Internet. I know that AndroMDA has some cartridges to persist Java objects but as far as I know AndroMDA only support persistence in the context of EJB 3 not as standalone JPA. After I found this product I began to analyze the code at Bitbucket.org and found out that the idea with the Events and Listeners as Extensions  is a very good idea. TRIMM also uses Maven completely and does not have any dependencies to Eclipse plugins, so you are Eclipse independent. Special to this framework is that it uses its own metamodel and does not use UML2 metamodel for the generators. TRIMM should work for MagicDraw and Enterprise Architect and it can read the files directly from those UML tools. It also uses its own Java code generator which is basically based on Str