"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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