Re: UML Modeling Tool

[manoj chittora <chittoramanoj@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Thanks Chris,
 I have read couple of document on WDSCi V7 AE , This
version have one feature called application diagram
component which represents the program structure
diagram, call diagram. 
 
 I guess IBM is working in that direction 
Read the following 

http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/software/awdtools/wdt400/about/
 
    Thanks 
 Manoj Chittora 
--- "Christopher Jewell (Korasoft Inc.)"
<jewellcj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Manoj:
>
> An interesting question.
>
> Sun's NetBeans does not offer 'round-trip' (or even
> 'one-way-trip')
> engineering to RPG. Nor does any other UML tool that
> I know of.
> Unfortunately since RPG is not an Object Oriented
> programming language and
> since it is not widely used anywhere other than
> System i shops, it's really
> hard to obtain any kind of high-level graphical
> representation of the
> architecture of an application written in RPG. The
> best that a putative
> 'reverse engineering' tool might be able to do is to
> generate UML Class
> Diagrams from the database access and UML Component
> Diagrams from (any) ILE
> Modular Structure. As for Sequence Diagrams, you can
> pretty much forget it
> because the call-stack is procedural and not
> object-oriented.
>
> If you are planning to write new systems in RPG,
> your best bet to achieve
> some 'abstraction of the design' is to use one of
> those expensive
> traditional CASE Tools such as AllFusion 2E, or
> Lansa. If you are attempting
> to reverse engineer an existing RPG system into
> let's say Java through an
> analysis of the RPG system's architecture, your
> options are limited (as far
> as I am aware and I will happily stand corrected!).
> In my opinion, there is
> still an opportunity for an enterprising software
> company to make money from
> creating a tool that offers reverse engineering to a
> graphical
> representation of legacy RPG systems and then
> onwards to forward engineering
> to Java without locking the developer into any kind
> of proprietary
> technology either at run-time or design-time, and I
> have thought about
> taking the plunge in this direction on many
> occasions....
>
> Chris Jewell
> Korasoft Inc.
> San Rafael, CA
> Phone (cell): (415) 479 1349
> Fax/Office: (415) 507 0322
> mailto:jewellcj@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.korasoft.com
>
>
>
> On 7/23/07, manoj chittora <chittoramanoj@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > Does NetBean IDE Modeling tool works on RPG
> Source?
> > or Is there any UML modeling tool which reads RPG
> > source?
> > Thanks
> > Manoj Chittora