The new v5.0 release of MetaEdit+ from MetaCase's adds a wide range of features to the company's flagship software development tool. MetaEdit+ is aimed at expert developers who seek to create graphical domain-specific languages and code generators rapidly. MataCase states that the rich graphical notations go beyond plain icons and links; they can change on the fly depending on model data, be nested to unlimited depth, retrieved from libraries and have a fixed or dynamically varying number of ports to which to connect. These new features allow domain-specific models to mimic closely the problem domains they describe. The new version integrates into programming tools like Visual Studio and Eclipse. Software developers get one-click access from their IDE to MetaEdit+ models, can integrate generated code with hand-written code and libraries, and automate their build process. Versions for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X are available.
