Three weeks ago there was identified a need for the company to document a
large set of IDL data from one of our major projects.
I put forward a proposal to use Rose to reverse engineer the IDL using the
CORBA tools that ship with Rose and to forward generate a report into MS
Word.
The company was impressed with Rose's capabilities and gave me the go-head
to start documenting the IDL.
2 weeks later with help from a couple of colleagues, I have managed to
document a couple thousand IDL fields in a series of Word tables. I have
even included some pretty class diagrams to show the links between the
fields.
Proud that I achieved this in only two weeks, where it would normally be
expected to take twice this long, I distributed my IDL tables, in Word, to
the program.
I have just had my database person, working on said project, inform me that
the IDL data in the tables is not in the same sequence/order as it is in
the IDL files. So my tables are useless to anyone who wants documentation
on how to find our IDL data in a database.
So my database person and I have just done an experiment to see where the
data got sorted, and it appears that Rose is changing the order of the
attributes as it imports the IDL into classes. In fact, Rose seems to be
scanning for attributes of the same type, importing them all together and
then looking for subsequent types. There seems to be no logic to the order
in which the IDL is imported.
Has anyone else out there experienced this?
Does anyone have a recommendation for how to get the attributes in their
correct order in the classes.
Can anyone tell me what I did wrong so that this won't happen next time I
am asked to document some IDL (or other type of object data)?
Les.
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