What is round-trip engineering and forward merging?
Round-trip engineering is the interative process of syncing the source code with the model (in either direction). For instance, repeated code generation invocations will forward merge the model information with the existing source code. This means that modifications made within the source itself will be preserved each time code is generated. Likewise, repeated invocations of reverse engineering will merge the source code information into an exising model. In contrast, code generation and reverse engineering, without the concept of round-trip engineering are both uni-directional. For instance, each time code is generated (without round-trip engineering support) any previously existing source code is simply overwritten (re-generated from scratch). ObjectDomain currently supports forward engineering (code generation) and reverse engineering Python. In ObjectDomain R3, full round-trip engineering support is provided for Java and C++.
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