It is a good thing to analyze the architecture and if possible to automated it.
other tools are: - Latttix but it seems to be very poor - xdepend, this tool seems to be very good but I'm not sure it generate architecture diagram We can get a free license for each of them. Emmanuel On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Wendy Smoak <wsm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since we're talking about making architectural changes, I wonder how > close we really are to the "now" diagram on > http://continuum.apache.org/ref/1.4.0-SNAPSHOT/architecture.html ? > > I tried looking at Continuum with Structure101 late last year, but > didn't get very far because the packages are still split between > org.apache.maven.continuum and org.apache.continuum. What I _could_ > see tells me that we have a some dependencies between modules that > really shouldn't be allowed to talk to each other. :) > > Recently I've been trying this again with SonarJ, which the nice folks > at Hello2morrow have provided a license for. With this tool, you > define your own layers and rules about which layers are allowed to > communicate, and then it shows you where the dependencies are. > > I would really like to define the new architecture and use automated > tools to make sure we adhere to it (or at least know when we aren't). > > Thoughts on this in general? Any other tools we should evaluate? > > -- > Wendy >
