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Subject:    Re: [Mifos-developer] UML/data modeling of Mifos (was: introducing:
From:       "Dion Dodgen" <dion.dodgen () sadalbari ! com>
Date:       2007-12-20 8:01:43
Message-ID: 10401c320712200001t258af359oec6e30154f5f70ea () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

>>It would be great if volunteers come up with a beautiful point-in-time
>>class diagram of Mifos

Could possibly be done using svn versioning with an ant plugin to run
the UML generating app, it would be nice if the generating tool has an
external API for java.


On 12/19/07, Adam Monsen <haircut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 15:26 -0800, Tom Bostelmann wrote:
> [...]
> > personally i think we should just use GraphViz since it has many Wiki
> > integrations.  it's good at communicating simple modeling and might be
> > a better "first-step".
> [...]
>
> Good point.
>
> Simple, maintainable, and useful visualizations are nice, and tools like
> GraphViz are great for this. A solution using GraphViz would be a
> homegrown one, but perhaps it would evolve with the code rather than
> being a class diagram good for only one point in time.
>
> It would be great if volunteers come up with a beautiful point-in-time
> class diagram of Mifos, but I guess I'm wary of being trapped into using
> proprietary (and expensive) tools like Rational Rose and Magicdraw. Then
> again, I've never used these tools so I don't know if the tradeoff in
> time (perhaps it is faster to use these tools than Free ones like
> GraphViz), Freedom and monetary cost is worth it. If we had great
> diagrams, maybe development work would cost less and take less time.
>
> Hence the trial starting with classes related to CustomerBO. :)
>
> Kevin, are you interested in looking into GraphViz?
>
> --
> Adam Monsen
>
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