On 20/02/2015 2:24 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 20/02/2015 02:15, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
On 19/02/2015 12:36 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 19/02/2015 17:19, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
That would be great.
I do not have write access to that part of the wiki but I could
contribute some text and examples and links to the sites that I
have found for Graphviz.
It would be good to have some guidelines ( "Use the embedded Wiki
tools such as Graphviz and Gliffy whenever possible." "when you
create a grphic externally, add the source file to a child page as
an attachment with the name of the tool and how the graphic can be
regenerated." If you create Use Cases or other UML, add the model
as a child page.")
What are people using for UML?
I believe most people use ArgoUML, at least I know the Neogia team
did at some point They also mentioned their UFO tool
http://www.neogia.org/wiki/index.php/U.F.O.
It has only the entity part, but anyway, sincerely I'm not a fan of
UML and such, I'm more inclined to something like Hemp where
graphics are less important
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/HEMP-Book-Now-Available-4640689.S.255382432
I tend to find
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data+Model+Diagrams enough
for my needs.
For my day to day work, I rely more on search in OOTB *mode*.xml
files. Data Model Diagrams sounds convenient but they are also often
blurring things. When you have a data model with 800+ tables it's
not surprising...
I agree that looking at the entity definitions is better specially
since the graphics are 5 years old.
If the drawings were updated as changes are made, it would be a more
useful tool.
Of course and update would be welcome, but sincerely I don't think
there is much important things missing in those graphics, at least
nothing preventing me to work on custom projects.
Apart some adding I can't quickly recall
I have "recently" (more than 1 year ago) marginally updated the
GeoPoint data model https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5453
Before the last change was r1222544 and it was 3+ year ago, see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Revisions+Requiring+Data+Migration+-+upgrade+ofbiz
That's why I don't think we are missing much there, did you note
something specific?
Once I saw the age, I did not spend a lot of time there.
I am building my current understanding from the xml files.
There is more information there and I have more confidence that they
reflect the current product.
Ron
Jacques
Jacques
One can use Gliffy but it does not create a model so there is no
repurposing or analysis possible from the effort of creating the
drawing.
I have only seen a few Use Case drawings in the wiki but I did not
find the source model that was used to create the drawings or even
a mention of the tool used and I did not check to see if they were
in Gliffy or not.
I use ArgoUML which is free and open source.
It is pretty complete but like some other open source products, it
lacks a bit of polish and the docs are spotty.
Ron
On 19/02/2015 9:49 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Maybe we could create a page in the wiki (children of
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Contributors
or directly a section in
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices)
with Guidelines for graphics in the wiki?
Jacques
Le 19/02/2015 15:29, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
http://blog.lunatech.com/2007/04/27/uml-class-diagrams-confluence-using-graphviz-and-dot
Shows some simple ways to add UML to the wiki using Graphviz.
Ron
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