Reverse Engineer UML Diagrams From Source Code

[cppaddict]

I'm looking for a good tool that can automatically generatre UML
diagrams from source code.

I know Together can do this, but it's rather expensive....

I was hoping for something open source. What are my options? What
should I be considering? I plan to use it mainly for personal use for
building medium sized applciations.

I also found this one:

http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net/

Has anyone used it?

TIA,
cpp

 

[Filip Larsen]

I'm looking for a good tool that can automatically generatre UML
diagrams from source code.

Take a look at http://argouml.tigris.org/.


Regards,

 

[cppaddict]

Take a look at http://argouml.tigris.org/.

I actually already have argo... I didn't know it could reverse
engineer from source. I couldn't find anything about that on the
website... Do you have a link to the appropriate docs?

thanks
cpp

 

[Filip Larsen]

I actually already have argo... I didn't know it could reverse
engineer from source. I couldn't find anything about that on the
website... Do you have a link to the appropriate docs?

I haven't used the feature much (lately), but I think you just invoke
File -> Import and select some java source files. The manual describe
that in
http://argouml.tigris.org/documentation/defaulthtml/manual/ch09s03.html#s3.ref.menu_import_sources.


Regards,

 

[steve]

I haven't used the feature much (lately), but I think you just invoke
File -> Import and select some java source files. The manual describe
that in
http://argouml.tigris.org/documentation/defaulthtml/manual/ch09s03.html#s3.ref

.menu_import_sources.


Regards,

yes it certainly imports the stuff, but it does not make any class diagrams
from it..
it appears you have to hand link it.

 

[asaguden]

I'm looking for a good tool that can automatically generatre UML

 

[Filip Larsen]

Regarding ArgoUML I wrote

and steve answered

yes it certainly imports the stuff, but it does not make any class diagrams
from it..

Well, in my end it works. When doing import ArgoUML will generate one
class diagram for each package and place that diagram in the package.
The content will vary according to the options selected in the import
dialog.


Regards,

 

[steve]

Regarding ArgoUML I wrote


and steve answered


Well, in my end it works. When doing import ArgoUML will generate one
class diagram for each package and place that diagram in the package.
The content will vary according to the options selected in the import
dialog.


Regards,

tried it several times, with all options selected.
i just get 1 box in the middle of the screen, no arrows connecting anything,
nothing like the picture on their website.

I suppose if i started from scratch , it would be o.k ,but this project is
over 1 yer old and has rather a lot of code.

steve

 

[steve]

--------------------------------------------
www.bluej.org
absolutely free

/asaguden

this is a teaching tool, and yet ANOTHER system fore storing source code.

steve

 

[Filip Larsen]

tried it several times, with all options selected.
i just get 1 box in the middle of the screen, no arrows connecting anything,
nothing like the picture on their website.

If the package you look at only has one class then this is to be
expected. Try import the root directory of your source, with "Minimize
Class icons in diagram" deselected and "Attributes modelled as UML
associations" (under the Java tab) selected and see if that helps. Be
warned that this might take a long time and require some resources for
large projects.


Regards,

 

[steve]

If the package you look at only has one class then this is to be
expected. Try import the root directory of your source, with "Minimize
Class icons in diagram" deselected and "Attributes modelled as UML
associations" (under the Java tab) selected and see if that helps. Be
warned that this might take a long time and require some resources for
large projects.


Regards,

well there are 2 options:

1. the program does not work
2. there is something seriously wrong with the way i write my java.

I will assume it is number 2,
I always write my code with 1 class per file.
but i do have maybe 20 classes with source in the project.
the main class calls each of the other classes

I thought that the this program would show my main program class, ( as a box)
then interlink ( with arrows) & show the calls to the other classes.

i did not expect that the classes all had to be in the same package.
( i now see that where items are in the same package, they do link)

again i like to split re-usable items into different packages, and give them
separate package names

or is the purpose of the program something different.

I did import from the root source directory.

 

[evandropaes]

Try to check Visual Paradigm UML SDE. It reverses engineering from PHP code