Hello Bob!
Yes, you are right. The work to split into smaller modules must continue but
this requires us to manage the dependencies.
There are two obvious ways to solve the management of the decpendencies.
Either we choose the Eclipse solution, where every module provides a set of
interfaces for other modules to use and we build some kind of infrastructure
for dependencies between modules. The other solution is to consider the
interface of Notation as an infrastructure and then have some modules "Use
it" and other modules "Provide it" much like how some java interfaces are
used (java.sql, javax.xml.xpath, org.omg.CORBA, org.w3c.dom, ...). I guess
the term Dependency Injection that has gotten some attention with the very
populare Guice framework but I am not sure exactly where it fits in this.
I guess that we will be forced into the solution of managing dependencies
between modules but I would like us to consider other alternatives too,
especially for things like Notation that has been part of the core argouml
and that might appear in several places.
We don't have any tools or processes in place to manage dependencies. Until
we do, every time we set up such a dependency we will have problems.
/Linus
2011/4/14 Bob Tarling <[email protected]>
> Linus said:
> > Looking at this from above it is obvious that we should not have such
> > dependencies
>
> How can the activity diagram not rely on notations to generate the
> text they display? They have done so for a long time.
>
> All thats being done here is the continuation of the breakup of
> ArgoUML into smaller more manageable modules that match our
> subsystems. Those subsystems clearly have dependencies.
>
> The splitting of functionality from core argouml should continue. It
> has started with some diagrams, now notations, other things like the
> diagram subsystem should be split out so that we can isolate ourselves
> from GEF, plus cognitive subsystem etc. In this process what we are
> seeing now will happen more.
>
> Regards
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> On 14 April 2011 05:51, Linus Tolke Tigris <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > There seems to be a new dependency between the
> > argouml-core-diagrams-activity2 module and the argouml-core-notation
> module.
> > Looking at this from above it is obvious that we should not have such
> > dependencies. On the other side, I am well aware that there might be
> > pragmatic reasons for having such dependencies.
> > Do we have a plan for eventually removing this dependency or shall we
> start
> > considering some of the argouml-core-modules to be "closer to core" than
> > others?
> > /Linus
> >
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