[ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-09-30 Thread Clarke Bishop
I am trying to understand a pre-existing application so that I can extend it. My question is: What's a good way to attack this problem? Specifically I want to understand some parts of Mura so that I can modify and extend the functionality. Mura uses ModelGlue and Coldspring (And Fusebox for the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-09-30 Thread Howard Fore
I'd start with what happens when the application starts up and when an individual request comes in. Maybe draw out some UML sequence diagrams to visually show the order of events and compnents talking to each other. Howard On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:55 AM, "Clarke Bishop" wrote: I am tryin

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-09-30 Thread John Mason
He is, thankfully, working on understanding a Model-Glue app. So I directed him to the ModelGlue.xml file which contains all the wiring (controller) logic to understand what's happening. This draws an important point for controller based frameworks and why most should use them. For someone (oth

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-09-30 Thread shawn gorrell
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Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-09-30 Thread John Mason
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RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application

2009-10-01 Thread Clarke Bishop
e sense of all these events and handlers! Clarke -Original Message- From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of John Mason Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:03 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Tips for Analyzing an Application That's mo