It includes tools and editors making it easy to learn and to adapt to any kind of technology. It is fully based on EMF. Acceleo main features are the followings:

• Any meta-model support including UML 2.0, UML1.4 (using a MDR bridge)
• Template Editor with syntax highlithing, in-line completion for meta-model elements, scripts, services and detection of compilation and runtime errors
• Reflective Editor for precise and real-time preview of generation results
• Execution chains acting as a “glue” for real project generation, specifying which model to use, where and what to generate, etc...
• Tree-like syntax very easy and natural to use
• Fully extensible thanks to the use of Services developed in Java
• Incremental generation support: manual code is kept after every generation