I have watched this keynote that talk about develop an app based on an UML model, but I can't find any tutorial or docs about it.
Do you know any tutorial or documentation to help me?
thanks
Have a look at ArchGenXML.
ArchGenXML is a code generator. It builds on architecture-centric, model-based and test-driven development. Generates Python code from UML-Models (XMI-Format). It's optimized for the generation of code based on the Archetypes framework.
Documentation about using it with Plone (Zope) can be found here.
As Aussie says, ArchGenXML is the way to go - I use it a lot. But use Paster and Zopeskel too. Create an "egg" skeleton as documented in the link (use the "archetype" template), then create your model (A .zargo file) in the main code directory (ie, the directory containing config.py).
This way ArchgenXML (AGX) will create everything as appropriate for an egg.
UML (Unified Modeling Languge) - is a modeling language.
Is used to specify, visualize, modify, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software intensive system under development.
Refer to here.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language][1]
If you searched using "UML" you'll find a bunch of result that will help you.
As soon as you will understand the concept of UML and know how to create UML diagrams then there's no more problem creating your app based on your model.
Very best,
Related
I'm trying to create a UML diagram from the command line without preexisting code.
Eventually I'll write code in C++/Java, but I need to create a diagram first.
I'm thinking of a header-like file, which could be read and could generate a diagram.
Of course, I could just create a header and generate it. However, I'm not supposed to write any code until I've submitted my diagram (I'd also just like to have an efficient way to do this for the future).
UML does not require application to draw. On the contrary one of the main usages of UML is to model the application that you're going to build to understand it better and make a better code as a result.
You also don't use application you create to draw UML diagram. You can use any application that supports UML modelling. Simple Google search or visit on Wikipedia will give you tons of options. You may even take a sheet of paper and a pencil. I've seen a course of UML, where participants did not use computers. They were supposed to learn UML, not tools that allow to draw it.
Finally (answering the question stated in the question topic), UML is in no way limited to model only graphical applications. Static structure and dynamic behaviour of the system exists regardless if user communicates with it through a GUI or command line.
Are you sure you understood the reason why you are supposed to make a UML diagram or do you disagree with that reason? What I can definitely suggest is to find a good book about IT business analysis using UML. This site is not to recommend specific books, but again Google will be your friend here.
As according to the comment the goal is to actually generate a UML class diagram from text let me add a second part of answer
First disclaimer. In general SO is not a place to ask for tools and that question is brushing it. Let me make my answer more generic though.
UML is in general graphical language so technically what you need is something that will parse text version of your "diagram" into a nice picture.
Most if not all tools keep UML in some textual format, be it XMI or some internal legacy solution. The problem with that is that the format is usually pretty complex.
There are some tools that are intended to "draw" diagram by typing text and that's probably something that would suit you best. In general I definitely prefer "normal" GUI but if you insist yuml.me has a nice and easy to understand textual layer based on which it generates really cool diagrams. You may expect you will find others as well, so as usually, ask uncle Google. As suggested by Thomas Kilian in a comment, PlantUML is another example as it can work without GUI and "is an open-source tool allowing users to create UML diagrams from a plain text language." (quote after Wikipedia)
I built an application which is integrated in open source program( you just download the binary of the program, run it and then my integrated module will execute when you click on one single button called translate. That's all. )
What the application does is that when user builds some schema in the open-source project I mentioned above it generates C++ code for the schema. It's java program written in OOP style( classes, polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation). There also runs some algorithms like top sort for finding topological sorting or bfs.
Since I study software engineering and will be presenting the application I would like to draw some UML diagrams or diagrams in general which would help me to better describe the application/ behavior of application itself.
Since it's not typical web-based project ( does not use any database etc... ) except for class diagram I don't know what what would be good to use.
Could anyone give me some diagram names which would help me to describe the behavior of my application better? I appreciate all the help.
You are looking for sequence diagrams, activity diagrams and/or state diagrams to describe behavior.
I want to create flow diagram with drag and drop functionality. Is vis.js suitable for that functionality as showing in this example
Or there are other open source libraries are available which is based on node js.
suggest me.
Thanks.
Vis.js is a great tool, if you what to build something not that complex in no time.
Another great library is D3.js. There is a big community around it. But for the functionality you want D3.js. I highly recommend their docummentation.
I'm new to UML and I have written a Sequence diagram for a Voucher User Interface, it is a small pet project I'm doing to learn UML. I have written a decent Sequence Diagram in StarUML and now I would like to generate the C++ code, the step is very simple I just go to Tools/C++/Generate Code... But there I face a problem, which you can understand from the screen captures below. I tried various places but I could not find any help, anyone experienced in StarUML who could help me go further?
Haven't used starUML for a while so things may have changed. But:
Last time I looked, it didn't provide templates for behavioural code generation. The only codegen templates were for static structure (classes, attributes, packages). If that's still the case then I suspect the empty panel arises from it not finding any suitable model elements to generate code for. i.e. your Sequence Diagram package doesn't have any classes in it.
You might be able to work it out by looking at the codegen templates; they should be in
<STARUML_INSTALL_PATH>\modules\staruml-generator\templates
hth.
I just tried to generate the code from start uml.
With Version 5.0.3.1570. It works well.
I got the diagram instantly.
One issue, it actually did not generate the composition / aggregation stuff but, then, I did that manually.
Since its propitiatory for my organization, I cannot revel but, sequence is exactly the same as of yours.
I choose Design model & then gave file path in dialog box.
I'm using an external java library for which I only have the javadocs and do not have the source code. I'd like to generate a UML diagram from the existing javadocs so that I can visualize the class hierarchy using something like Graphviz. Is that possible? Note that what I'm looking for is a graphical version of overview-tree.html.
Please let me know if you have any ideas and/or suggestions.
Thanks,
Shirley
I don't believe that there is such a tool. Most of the reverse engineer tools depend on the actual code. The javadoc information isn't guaranteed to match the code as a 1:1 for the structure, thus making it unreliable.
I'm not familiar with any off-the-shelf solution for this purpose. Most commonly folks have the source code that generated the JavaDoc.
That being said, the overview-tree.html traditionally has a fairly straightforward HTML format.
It should not be difficult to write a script that would read the file as text or as a DOM, reconstruct the hierarchy of UL and LI tags, and use that to build an input file for graphviz. I've done similar stuff in the past with other forms of data.
It's just a matter of time and proficiency with the scripting language or appropriate tools.
The one problem of this approach is that you would only get the hierarchy of classes. You would have to make it somewhat smarter if you wanted to get the "implements XYZ" and create multiple hierarchies. Even if you could get that data, you would have to manipulate GraphViz's levels to get it to provide an appropriate layout once you have this multiple inheritance structure.
Of course, adding the details of the members would turn this into a whole new problem since you will have to access other HTML files.