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[Searching] for UML-Lib to draw an Component diagram [message #1700812]

Tue, 07 July 2015 07:27

Eclipse User

Hello Folks!

I am searching for a possibility to create an uml-diagram out of an programmatical approach by using java.
Why? Cause I want to reverse engineer existing code to draw a mof-extended component diagram out of it.
Therefore there has to be an implementation (created by me) to analyse the existing code structure
and draw components at a defined location and connect them with associations.
The implementation shall also be able to write the created diagram to xmi to ensure further usage by other uml tools.
Because there are several uml-tools out there and I guess that it is very probable that there might be some tools which ensure right what I need.
Also I don't want to invent the wheel from the scratch.
There shall be also said that I want to take care about the analyse of the reverse engineered code and the enhancements of the MFO and use the api of the uml drawing tool
to get an final diagram to show the relations between the components.
Would be also good if the api is easy to use, but just an api able to solve my requirements would be enough. Might be UML2 can serve me.

Thanks!

Re: [Searching] for UML-Lib to draw an Component diagram [message #1700824 is a reply to message #1700812]

Tue, 07 July 2015 08:51

Eclipse User

Hi,

The UML2 project provides no facilities for graphical notation.
However, the Papyrus project [1] does. It provides a component diagram
editor and also APIs for construction/manipulation of diagrams. There
is an "extra component" in an experimental/incubation phase that
provides interchange of diagrams according to the UML-DI specification
introduced with UML 2.5. But I don't know how ready that is for
regular use and how it relates to XMI interchange with other UML tools.

You might ask further on the Papyrus newsgroup (eclipse.papyrus).

HTH,

Christian

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/Papyrus/

On 2015-07-07 12:00:53 +0000, Christoph Broeter said:

> Hello Folks!
>
> I am searching for a possibility to create an uml-diagram out of an
> programmatical approach by using java.
> Why? Cause I want to reverse engineer existing code to draw a
> mof-extended component diagram out of it. Therefore there has to be an
> implementation (created by me) to analyse the existing code structure
> and draw components at a defined location and connect them with
> associations.
> The implementation shall also be able to write the created diagram to
> xmi to ensure further usage by other uml tools.
> Because there are several uml-tools out there and I guess that it is
> very probable that there might be some tools which ensure right what I
> need.
> Also I don't want to invent the wheel from the scratch.
> There shall be also said that I want to take care about the analyse of
> the reverse engineered code and the enhancements of the MFO and use the
> api of the uml drawing tool
> to get an final diagram to show the relations between the components.
> Would be also good if the api is easy to use, but just an api able to
> solve my requirements would be enough. Might be UML2 can serve me.
>
> Thanks!

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