Sorry for the delay in answering, and thank you to those who responded. I indeed had overlooked this option.
In fact it does not work well for me, but that it not directly related to the association treatment but rather on the fact that argo does not understand Java5 generics, which I use extensively. Does anyone know if I can use an other free (as in free speech) tool, and which one, that I could use to reverse-engineer my existing code, generate an xmi taking generics into account, then import that into argo? Olivier Thomas Neustupny a écrit : > Hi Olivier, > > associations are created during import of Java sources. In case of instance > variables, there is a setting that controls whether the variable is mapped to > an UML attribute or association. You can find the setting in the import > dialog, in the second settings tab (labelled "Java"). > > You can check a UML class for associations by selecting the class and looking > in it's property panel at the bottom: watch the "Association Ends" list. If > you miss the respective association(s) on the diagram, then the class and the > associated element (e.g. another class) are not on the same diagram. Please > check that, and if you want them on one diagram, then drag them to any class > diagram you want. > > If you right-click the association in the explorer pane at the left (provided > you found it there, e.g. via navigating from the mentioned association end in > the list), you'll even find menu items in the popup menu to add the owners of > the association ends and the association itself to the diagram. > > The import just created class diagram with classes/interfaces/enumerations of > the same package, which is often the reason why most assotiations do not > appear on the diagrams. > > Regards, > Thomas > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > >> Datum: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:34 +0200 >> Von: Olivier Cailloux <[email protected]> >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: [argouml-users] Automatic associations? >> > > >> Dear list, >> >> I am happily discovering argo and find it a very nice software. I have a >> lot of java code I would like to import into argo to simplify drawing >> diagrams for refactoring and post-hoc documenting. >> >> When importing the code however, argo does not add any associations >> between classes. I would like that pointers from one class to an other >> (say, class A has an instance variable of type B) automatically convert >> in the model to an association. Why is argo not doing that? Is a pointer >> in java not an equivalent to an association in uml? >> >> Is it possible to ask it to do that? Or add every associations, after >> import, in one command? (Please note it is not the same as the "add >> association" command available in the class diagram, which will add, >> AFAIU, existing associations from the model to the diagram.) >> >> Please tell me if I misunderstand the role of associations in an UML >> model (or if my question is unclear, I can give a little example)... >> Olivier >> >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2366336 >> >> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: >> [[email protected]]. >> > > ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=449&dsMessageId=2369336 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]].
