Hi list,

It seems that there are few handy&free tool to generate UML class
diagram from a set of ActionScript source files. Why not we create
one?

I am not sure whether someone else have been doing this, today I
developed a simple Eclipse plug-in to parse ActionScript2 source code
and generate a UML2 model. UML2 (http://www.eclipse.org/uml2) is
EMF-based implementation of the UML™ 2.x metamodel for the Eclipse
platform. Its data structure and API are ideal for uml modeling tool.
Actually there are a couple of free/commercial plug-ins that support
eclipse uml2 and allow users to view or modify the diagram.
Temporarily, I am leveraging a sample plug-in from Eclipse GMF(Graphic
Modeling Framework) project: org.eclipse.uml2.diagram.clazz.  It can
be extracted from eclipse CVS last week, however unfortunatelly, it is
being refactored to other package/component, so someone removed it
from the repository. Hopefully, it will be available in two weeks.

My toy plug-in is still in very early phase (only
classname,generalizations, and importing are parsed). But I don't
think it is difficult to add capability of parsing method, properties,
or more associations. In the future version, I am even about to create
a customized ActionScript UML editor using GMF. GMF is based on GEF
and EMF, which helps you to create a graphic editor without building
from stretch.

Anyone has interests on this? What do you think of the approach
(as-->uml2-->gmf)? Look forwards to your comment. Thanks.
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