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From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
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Subject: Re: Free Ada UML tools Available /
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Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message news:<slrnaes1hh.15c.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>...
> On 23 May 2002 23:02:26 -0700, Adrian Hoe wrote:
> > What a nice UML (and other) drawing tool! But still has plenty of room
> > for improvement including the code generator.
> > 
> > All operations will be generated as functions in Ada. (I have not
> > tried generating for others yet) Is this a feature or a shortage?
> > Still has to do alot of hand work on the generated Ada code.
> 
> Yes, but I guess that the project needs a helping hand from more Ada
> people. Alternatively one could start a Dia2Ada project (in Ada of
> course) using the XML file that you can create with Dia.
> 
> What is it really that one expect of code from a UML model? I mean is it
> only the skeleton code or should it do more? 
> 
> Preben who hasn't looked much at UML and code generation from it.


I gave the Dia2code a quick hack last night. I was mainly trimming
some of the code in generate_code_ada.c. It will generate nice spec
and body files now. I will put it in my website so that it is
available for download.

At the same time, I will contact the Dia2code project manager for the
update I made.
-- 
                                       -- Adrian Hoe
                                       -- http://adrianhoe.com