From 57428701cfb1a42c7781dc62d9b1d97419add2d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thom Troy <ttroy50@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:39:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update code generation readme

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 03-code-generation/README.adoc | 9 +++++++--
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-Examples showing code generation using various tools.
+= Code Generation
 
-Also shows how to move variables from CMAKE into source files (configure_file).
\ No newline at end of file
+Code generation can be useful to create source code in different languages from a common description file. This can reduce the amount of manual code to write and increase inter-operability.
+
+Examples showing code generation using variables from CMake and also using some common tools.
+
+  * link:configure-files[configure-file] - Using the CMake configure_file function to inject CMake variables.
+  * link:protobuf[Protocol Buffers] - Using Google Protocol Buffers to generate C++ source.