Overview

Are you tired of writing user stories for software development? Do you struggle to keep your application landscape compliant with emerging enterprise architecture? Or do you want to migrate from OutSystems to Mendix?

Automatically Convert Any Cool Idea into an Application! ACACIA takes model driven software development to the next level! Use structured (enterprise) models or spreadsheets to generate software in minutes. The resulting Mendix application can then be enhanced in Mendix Studio if needed, and automatic deployment to a free cloud node is also supported.

Currently ACACIA supports both DEMO models (in JSON and XMI format) as well as an export of your OutSystems landscape. For DEMO, you can use either the Simplified Modeling platform or the DEMO extension for Sparx Enterprise Architect. For OutSystems, use the Cool Data Model Info plugin from OutSystems Forge.

Documentation

Typical usage scenario

Generate a Mendix application from a DEMO enterprise model, or from an OutSystems application model. Quick, fully compliant, and cheap migration to Mendix.

Features and limitations

• Automatically convert a DEMO model into a Mendix application (based on extensive research)
• Automatically convert an OutSystems model export into a Mendix application
• Optionally you can choose a template for a Mendix version and/or with specific layout and/or modules to start conversion with
• The resulting application can be further enhanced with Mendix Studio
• Or immediately deploy it automatically to a Mendix Free cloud node
• Generate an application using a service account and/or a specific Mendix accounts
• Other model types (BPMN, UML, etc.) will be added in (near) future

Currently, applications generated by ACACIA will be put on the Mendix Team server. Support for on premise version control servers may be added in future.

Dependencies [optional]

In order to use ACACIA, you will need a Mendix API key and PAT.