Eclipse XText/XTend for Java code generation

[mohanr]

A general question about your Java code generation proposal which may already exist. Have you considered Eclipse XText as the code generation engine ? DAML already seems to be like the XText DSL if I am not wrong. I am only familiar with basic Eclipse XText/XTend. I believe we don't need the Eclipse editor to do this. Just the Maven build file and dependencies.

[GeorgSchneider]

I don't think we would introduce another intermediate representation from DAML. If anything we would directly generate bytecode from DAML-LF. But we haven't pursued this approach further.

[mohanr]

Bytecode ? If you mean an ANTLR grammar for DAML that then generates Java code then it is usually done like that.

[GeorgSchneider]

No, I meant generate Java bytecode directly from DAML-LF, which is our intermediate representation