On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.du...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Does anyone know of a tool that can produce Python code from UML diagrams? >> > > Never used personally, but found few moments back -- 'Gaphor' ( > http://gaphor.devjavu.com/) <http://gaphor.devjavu.com/> > > I know that BOUML is superfast and is quite extensible with possibility of > writing it's plugins using a well documented API (mixed C/Python plugin > possible). I've used BOUML (but for C++ projects), and it is one of _the_ > fastest babes around. > > >> Is something of this sort being added to NetBeans? >> > > Impossible is nothing ;-) > > Or is it that the ease of programming in Python acts as a deterrent in the >> way of having to create something in UML and then covert that model into >> Python. >> > > Forward engineering should not be a challenge, but any programming language > that has too many ways of representing the same idea, and where the OO > paradigm can be functionally represented in multiple (too many) form, > reverse-engineering (not round-trip, simple reverse) presents some > challenges (not unsurmountable though). Once the forward and reverse engg > parts are individually nailed, the full round-trip thing becomes possible, > though some tools _by design_ choose to work in completely context-free > manner, and make round-trip jobs difficult. My knowledge of Python isn't > good enough to say whether Python is such a language, however given that > Gaphor exists, this (forward engg) is a solved problem. > >> >> it would be good to have a tool of that sort (Python to UML and UML to >> Python)? >> >> Also, is there a way to find Python call graphs (something like Doxygen), >> but not just the typical static code structure...instead something that can >> tell execution paths while a certain function is called. >> I came across 'pycallgraph'. Its good. except two things, its slow for big >> projects, and it goes all the way into tracing every single call...that >> means if I am using a COM library underneath, it traces that as well. What I >> was interested in is figuring out only part of the trace...may be specifying >> exclusions in the trace tree. >> > > I am guessing that it does dynamic (run-time) analysis, and unlike static > analysis tools, the depth control can only be "simulated", i.e. in reality > full depth traversal happens, hence you find it slow. > Looking around, found some more -- (Commercial) http://www.objectdomain.com/ (FOSS) http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-pyuml maybe there are others too. And 1 correction about Gaphor, it seems to be able to do reverse engg. -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
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