Generated Code
Let's examine the code portion in a bit more detail.
We will write some of the code directly—by hand, if you like—but this accounts for a small fraction of the total code in our application. The bulk of the code will be generated automatically, based on specifications that we supply.For example, we will specify the data elements that our application will store in the database and Caché will generate code that validates the information as it is entered by the users as well as code that saves the information to and retrieves it from the database.
Let's look at an example.