[OpenLayers-Dev] uml class diagram

[Cameron Shorter]

Emanuel,
I'd love to have UML exports of JS projects like OpenLayers. UML 
diagrams provide a fast way for a new developer to quickly get an 
understanding about the structure of a software package and find the 
part that they want to work on or use.

The original jsdoc has a primitive UML export function, but the original 
jsdoc doesn't parse OpenLayers code. :(

If you are keen, you might be able to write XSL to convert the jsdoc 
export to XMI format. I don't know how much effort is required. It might 
be easier just to update jsdoc2 code.

A few of us manually created a UML model for the vector graphics branch 
of OpenLayers before we wrote it. I don't think it will be of much use 
to you because it is now out of date (we didn't update it as we wrote 
the code) and it only covers the vector components of Openlayers. You 
are welcome to look at it. It is in the universal XMI format, created 
with Umbrello (available on linux).
http://svn.codehaus.org/mapbuilder/trunk/mapbuilder/mapbuilder/design/uml/graphics.xmi

Emanuel Schütze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm searching for an uml class diagram of the OL code. Is there anybody who
> has created or wants to create such an useful diagram?  
>
> Is there any tool who can generate uml from JavaScript? Michael Mathews, a guy 
> who currently implements jsdoc2 [1], wrote me that the current version of 
> jsdoc2 can already output xml. But he didn't know if there a way to convert 
> xml to uml. 
> A first uml export might come in jsdoc2 perhaps in july or later. 
> Unfortunately it's to late for me, because I need it for my thesis until end 
> of may.  It would be great if somebody can help me.
>
> Regards,
> Emanuel
>
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-2/
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