Archive for February, 2008
Nice Diagram Editor - yWorks’ yEd
Today I felt need in simple diagram editor in order to draw a comprehensive flow-chart diagram.
Previously I widely used Dia one, but it was always to painful to achieve acceptable with no constant mistakes and overall creation always took too long.
In the past I also several times evaluated Enterprise Architect, Visio and SmartDraw, but they [...]
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Java Code Structure and Dependencies Analysis Tools for Eclipse
One of my first assignments at the new company (remember, I left Zend previous week), was analysing existing projects structure. Which means distribution of classes into packages, package dependencies, libraries usage etc.
The results, I would say, were far from being perfect, but I can bet, most of large (and especially proprietary) projects would look similar or even worse. But this is not what I was going to say.
What I am going to say, is for this purpose I evaluated several analysis tools and I want to share my opinion about them.
Here they are (in order of evaluation).
1. Eclipse Metrics(1) (CPL)
Pros: Runs fast, provides tangle detector.
Cons: Dependencies graph is not usable with large projects. No text output of dependencies is available.
2. Eclipse Metrics(2) (CPL)
Pros: no.
Cons: Does not analyze dependencies.
2. JDepend
Pros: Nice and simple UI, fast analysis.
Cons: Provides neither graph [...]
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