Generation of source code from classes and maintaining the comment that indicates the role of the class in the generated source code

摘要

An apparatus for automatically generating an object-oriented language program which comprises a class definition storing unit, a parsing unit, a generation pattern description storing unit and a program generating unit. The class definition unit describes and stores the class definition. The parsing unit obtains structure information by parsing a class definition input from the class definition unit. The generation pattern description storing unit stores the generation pattern description for structuring the information obtained from the class definition. The program generating unit automatically generates a new object-oriented program from structure information of the parsing unit and the generation pattern. Additionally, both the structure information and the information possessed by a class included in a pattern description in a program to be generated, are verified. As a result, it can be verified whether or not the generated program includes a definition which conflicts with an existing program immediately after the generation of the program, without waiting for the compiling of the generated program.