Re: UML (Was: Ada to C++ translator?)

[Nick Williams <nickw@acm.org>]

Ken Garlington wrote:

> : And if it can do Ada -> UML -> Ada, why should it not manage
> : Ada -> UML -> C++ (or more desireable, C++ -> UML -> Ada)?
> :
> : Have you tried this without success before?
> 
> My understanding is that Rose will only generate the overall structure of
> the code; it's not a complete code generator (or, by extension, a
> translator).

Certainly, this is backed up by my own experience.

Rose 98i will code generate package specifications and stubbed bodies; 
as well as basic accessor subprograms, but it's quite clear that UML is 
not sufficient to convey the full semantic meaning of a reverse 
engineered program.

Admittedly, we are code generating for a SPARK environment, rather than 
an Ada one, so a great deal of the code that Rose would create (which 
depends heavily on access types, generics, tagged types etc) is out of 
bounds.

I would be very surprised if Rose 2000 were very much different.

Cheers,

Nick.