Wow that is very cool. Nice work!
Darron J. Schall wrote:
I've been sitting on this for a *long* time (since early this year).
I would've released this sooner but ran into a legal / non disclosure
problems - because my original Code Generator was created on company
time, I wasn't allowed to release it open source or even distribute
it, so I went ahead and had to rebuild it from scratch on my own
time. It was a pain in the butt, but I finally have something working
again.
Because Aral is away right now, the source is still "closed" for the
moment, but I plan on trying to get it added to the OSFlash hosted
projects. The source code will be released under the GPL. In the
meantime, you can find the download here:
http://www.darronschall.com/downloads/Xmi2As.zip
It was written in Java using SWT, so it's cross-platform native-UI,
but right now I've only provided a windows binary. There's still a
few things I want to do before "officially" releasing this, so I'm
holding off on building the OS X version. If enough people want to
try an OS X version, let me know and I'll get a build out sooner
rather than later.
Usage is as follows:
Launch the .exe and browse for the .xmi file (exported from your
favorite UML modeling program, like ArgoUML). Pick the directory to
put the generated classes, and hit generate.
You can also use it from the command line: > xmi2as model.xmi
output_directory
If you use it from the command line though, the error output isn't
displayed if something goes wrong. Because I'm using an .exe wrapper
(JSmooth) for a. jar file, the error messages don't make it to the
screen unfortunately. If it doesn't generate the classes, my first
guess at troubleshooting would be to make sure the output directory
exists. The error messages appear just fine when using the GUI
version though, so if you get stuck just try the GUI. I wanted to
make sure a command line version existed so that the process could be
automated. I love ant. :-)
I've tested this again a few class diagrams and all seems to work
well, but if you run into anything weird, let me know. There's still
a piece of functionality missing, and that's generating all of the
import statements for classes and interfaces. For now you'll have to
add the imports by hand, but I'll fix that whenever I get a chance. I
also want to add a command line switch for generate javadoc comments
(currently its turned on, and the only way to turn it off is to
recompile the code).
Anyway, I wanted to preview this on the list. Try not to announce
this "publicly" just yet (i..e on your weblog or in other news
groups). Whenever Aral gets back, I'll need to try to convince him to
set up a project on sourcesecure for me, then I'll release the code as
well. Once I get the source code out there, I'll make this release
"official" and announce it publicly. Consider this an early beta for
the osflash list. ;-)
-d
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