Hi Bob, hi Tom,

thanks for sharing the knowledge about these tools, there're for sure worth a 
look when cyclic dependencies need to be analyzed.

To answer your question, Bob: The parser will only create a dependency if there 
is still none for the given client/supplier combination, or, if a stereotype 
name is provided, if there is no such dependency with that stereotype name. See 
the implementation of the private buildDependency(...) method in the Modeller 
class.

Regards,
Thomas 
 

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2014 um 20:25 Uhr
Von: "Bob Tarling" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [argouml-dev] Some observations on java reverse engineering

Cool, thanks Tom.
 IntelliJ may be the direction for us at work some time soon anyway, I'll start 
of looking at classcycle for now though..
 I'd still like to tackle this for Argo as well, I'll go take a look at 
Thomas's work as soon as I can.
 
Cheers
 
Bob
 
 
On 18 December 2014 at 18:38, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Bob Tarling 
<[email protected][[email protected]]> wrote:

 My end goal is actually to determine package dependencies. I have a large 
application that I'm sure has cyclic dependencies between packages and I'd like 
to demonstrate that problem to the team I work with before we tackle how to 
resolve it and split the app to smaller jars.
 
The tool I used to do this analysis for ArgoUML itself (although we never 
tackled removing the package cycles) was Classycle: 
http://classycle.sourceforge.net/[http://classycle.sourceforge.net/] It is 
available as an Eclipse plugin as well as standalone tool.  One nice addition 
since the last time I used it is support for Dependency Definition Files.  This 
allows you to describe allowable dependencies (e.g. your architectural layers) 
and it will check for violations. 
http://classycle.sourceforge.net/ddf.html[http://classycle.sourceforge.net/ddf.html]
  Looking at 
http://argouml.tigris.org/source/browse/argouml/trunk/tools/classycle/[http://argouml.tigris.org/source/browse/argouml/trunk/tools/classycle/]
 it looks like it's been 7-8 years since I used it for ArgoUML.
 
IntelliJ's dependency analysis looks pretty powerful too (although I haven't 
used it): 
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/dependency_analysis.html[https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/dependency_analysis.html]
 
While adding dependencies to the Java reverse engineering may be useful for 
other stuff, it's not how I'd recommend finding package cycles.  A tool 
designed for that purpose will do a better job.
 
Tom
 
 

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