RE: Ever see this: dia2code?

[Christopher J. Mackie]

Paul; If what you want is some kind of visual CASE system, there are several
available multi-platform.  Offhand, I don't know of any (except maybe
Rational Rose) that support code generation for Objective-C, but Java is
widely if not universally supported these days.  Here are some links:

A useful article (6/2001) on the state of open source support for UML/CASE
(discusses several tools): http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue67/gilliam.html
ArgoUML (BSD-license, Java-based UML tool):  http://argouml.tigris.org/
List of UML tools ($$$ and free):
http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byCompany.html
Rational Rose (the 300-lb., $3000 gorilla of UML/CASE--but free to
teachers!): http://www.rational.com

You may find that what you want already exists, which is of course the
optimal budget point.  FWIW, my recommendation would be to piggyback on
either ArgoUML (open-source) or OpenTool (proprietary but cheap), which seem
to be the multiplatform products garnering the most open-source user
support.

Another product worth looking at (for ideas, at least), is BUGS (Bayesian
statistical modeling package).  It has a very nice Visio-like interface
called DoodleBUGS, which allows the analyst to draw the model, then
generates BUGS code for analyzing it.  It doesn't support round-tripping
yet, and idunno if the group would be willing to share the DoodleBUGS code,
but it wouldn't hurt to ask.

http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/welcome.shtml

Hope this helps,  --Chris
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Christopher J. Mackie
Princeton University
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Subject: Ever see this: dia2code?

....
Since there are so many programmers around here, I wondered if somebody
would look at this at tell me what kind of a project it would be to
develop this round tripping capability.  Or, perhaps more accurately,
how much would you expect a professor to pay for the development of such
a tool, if you know what I mean.  How much should be budgeted?



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