The ALMA project - an international collaboration by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and many other institutes ? uses architectureware to generate central data handling classes and XML schema files from UML class models.

The domain-specific requirements could not be met by any out-of-the box code generator.

The ALMA software developers are especially pleased with the elegant interplay between simple code generation templates and powerful metamodel navigation.

The ANT support from the genfwutil package is used to integrate code generation into the automatic system build.