Re: [aspectj-users] UML tools' tolerance for AspectJ code

[Alfonso Olias Sanz <aolias@xxxxxxxx>]

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Siobhan Clarke (Trinity College)

She did some papers about  how to represent aspects with UML notation, but as 
far as I know as well there is no official notation.


On Wednesday 21 July 2004 14:55, Antti Karanta wrote:
>                    Hi!
>
>   As far as I know, there is no "official" way of visualizing aspects
> with UML (though I did find some papers on proposed aspectj uml notation
> with google). I also assume that no UML tool provides support for Aspect
> syntax. Please do correct me if I am wrong with either of these.
>   Are any of the UML tool vendors thinking of supporting AspectJ in some
> way?
>
>
>   I am currently evaluating UML tools to use in my project. I also want
> to be able to use AspectJ. As it is presently somewhat useless to look
> for AspectJ support in these tools I'll settle for less. So what I'd
> like to know is how well different UML tools, specifically the ones with
> roundtrip engineering, tolerate AspectJ syntax. Anyone have any
> experience on the matter?
>   Here's a few concerns that come to mind:
>
> - UML tool tolerating classes with inner aspects, i.e. showing the other
> members correctly in class diagrams
> - UML tool tolerating .java files that contain only aspect(s)
> - UML tool tolerating .java class file that, in addition to a
> class/interface, has an aspect (not an inner one, but a normal one with
> package visibility)
> - If the UML tool integrates into Eclipse, does it function properly
> with AJDT? Again, I'm not asking for integration but simply that both
> still work.
>
>   What I mean by tolerating here is that the UML tool at most gives a
> warning message in the above cases when parsing the source, but
> otherwise functions normally in its class roundtrip / reverse
> engineering.
>
>
>   You may also bring up other relevant things I may not have thought of.
>
>
>
>        -Antti-
>
>
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