GERADOR DE CÓDIGOS PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DE APLICAÇÕES WEB A PARTIR DA MODELAGEM ENTIDADE- RELACIONAMENTO CODE GENERATOR FOR WEB APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FROM ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP MODEL

The automatic generation of source code is a practice adopted in the development of software to streamline, facilitate and standardize the implementation of projects. Although it be a common practice in software factories, it is not known a tool able to choose the design pattern to be used. The main objective of this paper is to present a code generator for the development of Web systems from an entity-relationship modeling, a programming language and a design pattern determined by the user. The specific objectives are to propose a system architecture able to suit and reuse different design patterns, programming languages and saved projects; allow the user to insert, update, delete, import and export a project; and automatically generate the source code and database scripts. This work is justified by the importance to reduce errors of coding; and to avoid waste of time in the development of Web systems performing routine tasks. Allowing, then, a greater dedication in the planning of business rules and the reduction of costs. The tool proposed (GCER) was developed in Java with the database