[Uml-devel] extending class import to other languages

[Sebastian Stein]

James E. Flemer <jflemer at acm.jhu.edu> [030115 17:53]:
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> I was mainly thinking about PHP, but also Java perhaps.  The Rev. Eng.
> framework sounds like it would work.  Is any of this in the cvs tree yet?
> I admit I've only looked at the code from the latest release so far, but
> I'll checkout the code from cvs soon.  How much "dirty work" will the RE
> base handle, and what will be left to implement for each new language?  It
> would be pretty slick if all that was needed was to write a little (f)lex
> code and a small wrapper classe (perhaps just extending a provided one).

At the moment the parsing stuff is from an older version of KDevelop. In the
future the whole app will be in some way scriptable, so that you can create
classes, associations, diagrams or whatever, over an well-defined interface.
The other way around would also work, you can receive all information in a
very easy way from the internal model.

So you see we are planning the basis of round trip engineering for the next
release. If somebody stands up and writes a parser is another question. So
your are very welcome to do it ;-)

Steinchen
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