Regeneration engine

Now that you have learned about builders, models, and profiling, we can discuss the component that uses these elements to create your application, the regeneration engine.

We believe that, besides builders with its profiling capability, regeneration process is what sets WEF apart from any other rapid application development tool or code generators for this matter.

Sometimes, regeneration engine is also called generation engine. This is a small detail, but generation happens only the first time when your application is constructed by WEF. Regeneration takes place every time after that. So, one should think that it makes more sense to call this process regeneration instead of generation. Hence, we refer to it in this book as regeneration engine.

The regeneration process is the process by which the component of WEF known as regeneration engine constructs the representation of you application. In order to perform this task, the regeneration engine goes through the list of...