Some of the stuff I have been doing on dia will help make it possible to
do this sort of thing.
There are a number of intermediate formats for this sort of thing. Two of
them are the OMG's XMI, and the UXF format. Both are XML representations
of models, and should be fairly easy to output once the properties code is
finished.
It would then be possible to have source code generators that take one of
these formats as input.
James.
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> An important of strength of commercial design tools is that they can produce
> skeletons of code.
> I know this feature form Cool:Jex (from Sterling recently bought by CA).
> The great advantage is that you can keep design and code in line.
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> Obviously it is a large amount of work to make generation possible for all
> possible languages.
> But if it is possible to extract the semantics from drawings into some tabular
> flat file form,
> I think many people will start writing utilities transforming such extracts into
> code skeletons
> and/or checkers of code.
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> Nevertheless I think Dia is a great initiative already,
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> Greetings,
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> Ernest Rotterdam.
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