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> My interest lies in being able to generate some of the code and
> being able to do the full round-trip engineering. We do embedded
> systems and the capabilities of Rose for generating any code aren't
> what we'd like.

I've been working on an open code generator (ColdFrame, at
http://www.pushface.org/coldframe/); this is the first public
announcement, and the software and documentation are very much in
alpha.

The main difficulty as I see it with closed code generators is that
you need a lot of access to the internals to be able to cope with new
generation-time options (if the model is like /this/, generate code
like /that/).

Rose/Ada doesn't give you a great deal of control (except through an
amazing dialog box with more options than you could shake a stick at),
and requires you to have a class in your model if you want a code
package generated (so you get loads of support cruft in the design
model, instantiations of generic containers etc). This makes reverse
engineering difficult (even if Rose/Ada supported it) (even if it were
a Good Thing).

Aonix make good noises about the CG strategy in Software through
Pictures.

ARTiSAN (artisansw.com) are working on Ada code generation.

I don't know whether I-Logix (ilogix.com) intend to support Ada, but
the zero-cost Rhapsody C/C++ Modeler has just another such dialog box!
and I don't /think/ you get much choice about your run-time
infrastructure.

None of the above provide a means of writing language-independent
model code (well, AIUI Rhapsody uses C++ for model code, I could well
be wrong about that). If that's what you're after, look at the
'executable UML' stuff at -- I think -- www.xuml.org; alternate routes
maybe through the Project Technology (projtech.com) or Kennedy-Carter
(kc.com) sites.