This issue talks about custom Velocity templates: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-2069
>From playing around in the Modeler: * In Preferences, add a custom template that resides somewhere on your filesystem and give it a symbolic name. * When generating classes, go to the Advanced option and make sure you select the custom templates (via your local symbolic name) before you generate. Pros: * Can specify custom templates in CM's preferences. Cons: * The custom template preferences are for a given developer only. Other developers will need to make sure they create custom template preferences and make sure they know to use the advanced option on generation, two steps easy to overlook. * The custom template isn't specified at all in the CM project files. I'm thinking it might be better to do the following: * Define custom templates in the DataDomain. * Specify custom template to use in the DataMap. * Allow overrides for each ObjEntity (just in case you want a specify a given ObjEntity to use a different template). * Save the templates and settings as part of the project files themselves instead of individual preferences. Pros: * Can still specify custom templates in CM, just not in preferences. * Since the custom templates are part of the project, other developers on the team don't have to remember to set up their preferences or remember to use the advanced code generation and select the proper templates -- that will be handled in the DataDomain and DataMap and persisted in the project files. * If using cgen, it should see the templates that are required in the project for each map/entity and you wouldn't have to specify additional settings -- it could automatically handle it. * If your project has multiple DataMaps, it is easier to specify different templates for each map, if desired, and easier to see it visually in CM and know what's going on. Cons: * Will be harder to edit the template data, potentially -- can't just edit a plain text file, although you could copy the contents out of CM, paste into an editor, make changes, then copy/paste back into CM. Or, just edit in-place in CM. * Template data will be in the project files, which will get deployed to production. Of course, will face the same issue/concern with adding JavaDoc, etc, to CM as well. I don't see the extra size of the project file being a concern, though, and can't think of a security issue with it being there, either. Thoughts? Thanks, mrg
