pure::variants is a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE that allows developers to generate code and other artefacts such as documentation and manifests for families of related software systems.

pure::variants is independent of any programming language or development process and is fully-customizable, and so can fit into a wide variety of development contexts.

With pure::variants you create, manage and evolve models of your software systems and generate code as an when you require it from these models. The overall term for you collection of models is a Software Product Line. Code generation is conducted through a configurable XML-based transformation engine.

You can read more about the pure::variants Eclipse plug-in and how it is used to generate code here. Free editions of the software are available from our downloads section.

Step-by-step examples are available showing generation of variant makefiles (266 kb) and generation of variant flag files (148 kb).