An approach for generating fsm program based on Visio modeling

Code Generation is regarded widely by IT industry. It can improve the consistency of the software architecture. In the management system of the Directory Service Network, some operations which can be abstracted into FSM model are defined. Take the configuration-switching as an example, generating FSM program using Visio and O'Caml is researched. Configuration-switching is modeled in Visio and the data in the model is extracted using VBA. The code is generated finally by the parsing and printing module written in O'Caml. The experiment shows that the generated code can be integrated with the system effectively. And this method makes it convenient for developing the same kind of program.