MWE The Big Picture

What is MWE aiming at

The purpose of MWE is to help orchestrate and configurate code generation workflows. Like with compilers a code generation process can and should be splitted into several single parts, each part doing a specific job. Such units of work are:

- parsing / loading model
- validating model
- linking model
- transforming model
- modifying model
- generating code out of a model

Typically there are a couple of component fulfilling such jobs included in a generator (compiler-chain), where each needs additional component-specific configuration.

The first thing MWE should provide is a way to define a sequence of specific components and declare how they should be configured. In addition MWE provides one (or more) runtime workflow models, providing

* the interface a specific component should implement
  * such an interface defines a main 'execute' method and optionally additional life cycle callback methods (like preconfigure, postconfigure, preExecute,etc.)
* A way to execute multiple components in parallel
* A way to conditionally execute components