> "Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone yous know of tried writing any Perl (or other lang)
> > software that will take a Dia UML diagram and autogen <programming
> > language/> objects from that?
> >
> > I'd like to have a way to generate perl objects (Class::MethodMaker)
> > and matching Tangram (an object persistance thing for Perl) Schemas
> > from UML. Since DIA uses XML, perhaps that would not be impossible
> > to do... has anyone else thought about that?
>
> There is a program on Sourceforge called dia2code which transforms UML
> to Java or C++. I tried using this program to generate Java but the
> code was a bit iffy, so I am thinking about rewriting it using XSLT or
> something for two reasons:
>
> 1) for a laugh (and more practical experience with XSLT)
> 2) as hopefully the UML structure in Dia will transform to code with
> ease.
>
> However, dia2code is here and this XSLT tool isn't. IIRC, extending
> Dia2code shouldn't be too hard - I know almost no C and change the Java
> code producer easily. Adding a Perl mode shouldn't be that tough.
>
> Ross Burton
>
You can find the homepage of Dia2Code at:
http://dia2code.sourceforge.net
The code is not the state-of-the-art, it's more like cheap-and-fast
("Fast, cheap, good: pick two", remember?). Anyway, I've divided the code
into files so it will be (hopefully) more understandable.
To discuss dia2code further, please refer to:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=15307
Xav
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