tool(s) for reverse engineering?

[Sanjay]

I have inherited a hugh java project. Now I am the only one who
understands this project as other who did left without any technical
documentation. So onus is now on me to create a technical document which
other developers would rely on to understand this project.

I have already written quite a bit of document with many diagrams. What
I need now is to be able to reverse engineer the code and create a UML
class diagram. Have any of you used any tools for that before. From
searching google, Netbeans seems to be one of the choices. Is there
anything else that you recommend? Thanks.

Sanjay

 

[Filip Larsen]

I need now is to be able to reverse engineer the code and create a UML
class diagram. Have any of you used any tools for that before.

I have used ArgoUML [1] for this with success in the past.

[1] http://argouml.tigris.org/


Regards,

 

[Richard Reynolds]

I have inherited a hugh java project. Now I am the only one who understands
this project as other who did left without any technical documentation. So
onus is now on me to create a technical document which other developers
would rely on to understand this project.

I have already written quite a bit of document with many diagrams. What I
need now is to be able to reverse engineer the code and create a UML class
diagram. Have any of you used any tools for that before. From searching
google, Netbeans seems to be one of the choices. Is there anything else
that you recommend? Thanks.

Sanjay

eclipseuml looks worth a try:
http://www.eclipsedownload.com/index.html it's free

 

[Sanjay]

Thanks to both of you. I did actually try ArogoUML two weeks ago, but
couldn't get what I wanted. May be I was doing something wrong. I
haven't tried eclipseUML yet, will give it a try later.

I just finished creating the class diagrams using Netbeans. Was pretty
easy and straight forward. Not only that, I would export diagrams to SVG.

Sanjay

 

[Richard Reynolds]

Thanks to both of you. I did actually try ArogoUML two weeks ago, but
couldn't get what I wanted. May be I was doing something wrong. I haven't
tried eclipseUML yet, will give it a try later.

I just finished creating the class diagrams using Netbeans. Was pretty
easy and straight forward. Not only that, I would export diagrams to SVG.

Sanjay

one thing to note, if you've shared your project using cvs in eclipse then
the free version of eclipseUML won't let you reverse engineer class
diagrams. You have to go to team->disconnect to remove the cvs stuff before
it'll let you ...