> I'm curious if anyone else is interested in having the capability of
> viewing a graphical class structure for a given class. I've been trying
> to evaluate how much effort it would take to implement this functionality
> (not that I'm trying to make more work for anyone). With the integration
> of the beanshell, we would have the capability to add the graphical class
> tree.
>
Depending on how much information you want to have in the diagram, this
can be very complicated to implement. I suggest that you take a look at
Together/J, which is an OO modelling tool implemented compleatly in
Java. It comes in two versions, on for free and one that costs money. In
the free version there is no limitation on the number of classes etc.,
but you can't print the diagrams. One nice thing with Together/J is that
it does not store the object model in a special file (only the diagram
layout), instead it uses the source code as the model and stores link
information etc. as JavaDoc comments.
This means that there is no reverse engineering (or export) button in
Together/J, it dynamically updates the diagrams as the source code
changes.
Together/J can also be manipulated through a Java API, so you can add
your own menu items, dialogs, configuration panels, ...
You can find Together/J on http://www.togethersoft.com/ .
And no, I *don't* work for Togethersoft. ;)
/John
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