Another alternative is to use a UML tool that supports Emacs as the external editor. You leave it up to the UML tool to do all diagram and code generation work, and have it launching Emacs (using gnuclient and gnuserv, preferably) when it comes to change the code.
I don't know of any OpenSource UML tool that can do that, but StructureBuilder has that support built-in. It is really useful.
Regards,
Nascif A. Abousalh Neto
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From: Chris Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:21 PM
To: jde
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Subject: RE: X-reference
Actually, if Dia supports XMI (the XML-based exchange format for UML tools),
I would imagine it shouldn't be too hard to have JDE convert Java code to
XMI and vice versa. An alternative to Dia is ArgoUML, which definitely
supports XMI. see http://argouml.tigris.org/index.html
I'm no XMI expert, but wouldn't it seem conceivable that one could write an
XSL stylesheet that would convert XMI data to Java code? I guess getting it
to go the other way might be more difficult.
Chris Todd
Software Engineer
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Alabanza Corporation
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> definitely. we use togethersoft control center at my work,
> and that's its whole draw. if you've got the elisp chops
> that would be an excellent feature!
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> Hi,
>
> while I am using dia, emacs and jde I wonder whether there might be some
> mutual benefit with respect to creating (UML-) diagrams from code and vice
> versa?
>
> Just a thought,
> Ekkehard
>
> Resources (for a start):
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
> http://sunsite.dk/jde/
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dia2code
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