While I was developing our TigerMDSD (Model Driven Software Development) tool most of the configuration of the generator was done in Java code (as can be seen in the videos), since that offered unlimited configuration power.

As more people start using it as a daily development tool, we decided to provide an additional configuration method based on YAML. It’s less powerful, but what it looses in power it gives back in clarity and ease of use :-)

Here’s what it looks like for simple Java Beans generation:

And here’s an example where you configure TigerMDSD for JPA/Hibernate generation: