Christian,
I just ran across this the other day. It is a bit immature, but looks to
hold great promise for a free UML tool.
http://argouml.tigris.org/
-sms
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Sell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thu, February 07, 2002 6:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Eap-list] feature request - project class view
Hello,
I just happened to use IDEA for a type of task I initially assumed it would
be well suited for, but came to realize it was by far was not as good at as
I had hoped.
The task was to understand a pre-existing project with a reasonably
complicated class hierarchy. I had before me a bunch of classes, spread over
several packages, of whom I wanted to quickly understand which of them were
part of inheritance hierarchies, and which implemented interfaces internal
or external to the project.
I found that the only tool IDEA offered which seemed to be useful for this
task was the Hierarchy view - but it turned out that my initial suspicion,
which I had when I first heard about it, was true - the Hierarchy view is of
rather limited use, as it only shows the hierachy of one class, and you
cannot have several Hierarchies open at the same time. Right now, all I can
do is click through every individual class and try to somehow remember the
dependencies.
My suggestion is to consider whether it would make sense to add some
"high-level analysis" features to IDEA instead of further extending its
"low-level coding" intelligence (maybe both ;-)). What I really would have
needed is a class diagram which showed the dependencies and relationships of
ALL classes in my project at one glance (or two) - be it as UML icons or in
any other way. In fact I am considering to get me some external tool for
this (hopefully there is a free one), but I really think this should be part
of the IDE, as IDEA already has all the knowledge - it would just have to
present it visually..
Hooray for a Project Class Diagram!!
regards,
Christian Sell
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