Generating Sequence Diagram

Hi,
are there any programs that can generate automatigally an UML Sequence Diagram from a running Java program?
Thanks.

Hi,
are there any programs that can generate
automatigally an UML Sequence Diagram from a running
Java program?
It can be done with Rational Rose it seems..
Yesterday only my onsite guy told me that.. I'm yet to find out how
-TC

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  • How to generate Sequence Diagrams for existing code

    Hi,
    I have a web application written in Java/Jsp's. I am looking to generate sequence diagrams automatically for the existing source code using this tool. I am not sure if this is possible using this tool. Can some one please explain me if that is possible using this IDE tool? If so can you please let me know how this can be done?
    Any response is greatly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance.
    Vijay

    Hi,
    Yes, you can reverse engineer operations and create sequence diagrams using Java Studio Enterprise.
    Just right-click on the operation in the UML model that has the source file associated with it, and select "Create Diagram from Selected elements" or "Reverse Engineer Operation".
    Thanks!

  • Reverse engineering sequence diagram with more than one level deep

    Hello,
    When I generate sequence diagram from a method with Java Studio Enterprise 8.1, it only shows the method called directly by this method.
    Can I also show the methods that are called by the other methods that the one I'm generating the diagram from?
    Thanks,
    Mike

    Hi Mike,
    Sorry for the delay. The whole team has been busy with JavaONE for the past week.
    We currently do not support reverse engineering of an operation to a sequence diagram more than one level deep. I opened an enhancement request for you:
    http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=103780
    The UML pack is now part of NetBeans. Check out these links for the latest info regarding UML:
    http://www.netbeans.org/products/uml/
    http://uml.netbeans.org/
    Thanks,
    George

  • Eclipse Plugin: Sequence Diagram from Java Project

    Any Free Plugin available for eclipse to generate sequence diagrams from the java project?
    Like MaintainJ does?
    Edited by: wizsen on Oct 28, 2009 4:32 PM

    sabre150 wrote:
    Melanie_Green wrote:
    If its any consolidation I have used UML a plugin for NetBeans, not Eclipse to generate such diagrams in a previous project. Would I recommend it is the next question =p.
    If it's anything like ''Together' then the resulting sequence diagrams are just about useless since they will contain far far far too much detail. Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams, State diagrams etc should summarise a system and not be just an alternate detailed view of code.This.
    I used to work with the guys that wrote Together and that is exactly what the UML diagrams were: an alternate view of the code. As in, they defined a language that described source code and the diagrams, and either could be used to generate this intermediate code, and either could be generated from this intermediate code. Quite neat, but as you point out, not necessarily all that useful
    OP, if you're thinking of using this to "cheat" on some homework, don't bother, your tutor will spot it a mile off!

  • Open source UML tool for Code ----- Sequence Diagram ?

    Are there any open source / free tools which can generate sequence diagram from java code ?
    Thanks in Advance
    Ratheesh

    check-out www.logsequencer.com - it is a very cool tool and is only $19.
    It generates sequence diagrams from log files.

  • Oracle UML Sequence Diagram

    hi all
    Is there any way to UML generate sequence diagram in JDev 11R2 .
    Thank you for your time.

    Yes, with the Studio edition.
    File->New. Choose the "All technologies" tab, General, Diagrams, Sequence Diagram

  • Generating a sequence diagram for an ADF/BC project

    hi folks,
    is there an automatic way to produce a sequence diagram? Read something about debug mode but its not working that way.
    Any help apreciated

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    thanks for the info but the documentation says somewhat about break points, but where to set them isnt mentioned - so nothing gets drawn in the diagram. Any info on that would be appreciated. Do i need several break points and especially where do i set them?
    I was allready wondering how a sequence diagram for an adf/bc project would look like - especially if no beans are involved.

  • UML Sequence diagram and class diagram

    Making UML sequence diagram I didn't put activation rectangle in first object(UI) assuming that this object is always active. Is this correct? Not according to my tutor and I have to quote him:
    "Finally, you have no activation rectangle for the userInterface instance, so the initial message could never have been sent."
    Another thing he is picking me at is and I'm quoting him:
    "In class diagram the generalisation arrow heads should be open triangles."
    In my opinion there isn't strictly said that they must be open triangles especially when software lets you choose their form. Looking forward to hear your opinions.
    Thanks for answers.

    atch7 wrote:
    Making UML sequence diagram I didn't put activation rectangle in first object(UI) assuming that this object is always active. Is this correct? Not according to my tutor and I have to quote him:
    "Finally, you have no activation rectangle for the userInterface instance, so the initial message could never have been sent."
    Another thing he is picking me at is and I'm quoting him:
    "In class diagram the generalisation arrow heads should be open triangles."
    In my opinion there isn't strictly said that they must be open triangles especially when software lets you choose their form. Looking forward to hear your opinions.
    My opinion is that in the real world that is meaningless. In the real world you might encounter one or more of the following situations.
    - There is no UML diagrams at all (thus whether one is active or not is moot.)
    - The UML diagrams are very high level and intended merely as a starting point. Missing details does not mean that you are free to ignore that the system must still run when you are done with it.
    - You will use a UML design tool that generates code, and you fill in blocks within it. Then of course details in the UML will matter. The chance that you will actually encounter this situation is almost zero. Realistically the only real place you might encounter this is if your work for a company that produces UML design tools.

  • Creating UML sequence diagrams using UML Modeler

    Has anyone tried to generate UML sequence diagrams using JDev's Modeler utility. Is there a workaround for creating sequence diagrams. Does Oracle have an very near-term plans for supporting sequence diagrams.
    Thank you.
    Antonio

    While I've done a bit of work with UML, I'm by no means an expert, so this may be a dumb question...
    Isn't the point of UML (and other modeling languages) to abstract the design of a system away from the implementation? I'm hard pressed to think of a situation where a UML diagram would change based on the language chosen for implementation.
    Justin

  • How to create Sequence Diagrams in Jdev 10.1.3?

    Hi there,
    I´m migrating (trying) from Eclipse to JDeveloper and I´m having several dificulties....
    I´m creating a new project in JDeveloper:
    0) create an application workspace [ok]
    1) create a web application project [ok]
    2) create some packages and Java classes [ok]
    3) create a class diagram related to the
    above classes [ok]
    4) create a sequence diagram [ok]
    5) use the classes into the sequence
    diagram [more and less]
    6) use the methods of the classes into
    the message lines of the sequence
    diagram [no]
    Some observations that are messing me:
    1) Do I need to create an "Object Lifetime" for
    every class and after that select "Attach Classifier" ?? Why I can´t just drag the classes into the diagram (like Jude) ?
    2) Can I use the methods already defined in the classes to create messages in the sequence diagram?
    3) The sequence diagram od JDeveloper is disconnected from the project classes? i.e., is it just a draw ?
    best regards,
    Felipe Gaúcho

    Hi,
    I am glad to find that you are working on the sequence diagram. I take your point about selecting the methods and assigning them to the messages. Unfortunately this feature is gated by some architecture changes and it something I will be actively pursuing as soon as it is possible.
    In reply to your other points:
    1) Do I need to create an "Object Lifetime" for
    every class and after that select "Attach Classifier" ?? > Why I can´t just drag the classes into the diagram (like > Jude) ?The reason for this is that the sequence modeler is simply a view onto a single diagram type that can contain any object. This allows the mingling of different UML type on the same diagram. It can be usefull to mix usecase and seqeunce for example.
    For that reason the default action for java class is to model a java class, and you do indeed need to create a lifeline first. Did you know you could drag and drop the classifier, in your case a java class, from the navigator onto the lifeline. This might be quicker in your case.
    2) Can I use the methods already defined in the classes > to create messages in the sequence diagram?As noted before in the preview you can't select existing messages. This is something we would like to add as soon as it is possible.
    3) The sequence diagram od JDeveloper is disconnected
    from the project classes? i.e., is it just a draw ?The sequence modeler isn't totally disconnected from the project classes; but it wont update as you edit the code if this is what you mean.
    Could you perhaps expand on this point a little bit?
    Thanks,
    Gerard Davison
    UML Modelers

  • Cannot select multiple messages in a sequence diagram

    In sequence diagrams, deleting multiple messages is tedious because multiple messages cannot be selected by using a selection rectangle.
    1) If the rectangle contains a single message, its object is also highlighted. So when multiple messages are selected, the corresponding objects are selected.
    2) If the selection rectangle overlaps a single line of the combined fragments box, the entire box is selected.
    I could same time if Studio used normal CTRL conventions. In other applications, holding down CTRL has two possible results.
    1) If the item to be selected is not highlighted, then that item becomes highlighted and is added to the selection group. Studio does this.
    2) If the item to be selected is already highlighted, then that item becomes non-highlighted and is removed from the selection group. Studio does not do this. So I cannot use a selection rectangle, then selectively use CTRL to remove unwanted items from the selection.
    Can anyone suggest a way of selecting multiple messages?
    As a side issue, does anyone know how to remove individual items from a selection?

    TreySpiva wrote:
    Have you tried using the Shift key when selecting?It's the same problem. Selecting one or more messages also highlights the sending and receiving objects associated with the messages. Pressing DELETE at this point would also delete the objects.

  • Saving Sequence Diagrams in Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8

    I'm having trouble saving my sequence diagrams! I create the diagrams press ctrl-s, click the Save-All button, when I close and reopen SJSE8 some of my diagrams are missing! When I look in the directory it appears that they have been saved because I have .eltd and .etlp files with the name of the diagram.
    In SJSE8 I still have the entries under Model, but not under Diagrams.
    It appears that the "link" or the "reference" to the file where the diagram has been saved is broken.
    Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this?

    I tried what you said on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP but could not reproduce the issue that you have. Could you please provide more detail like the following see if I can reproduce in order to help you.
    - what UML project type did you create (Platform-Independent Model, Java-Platform Model, etc.)? If Java-Platform Model, did you associate a Java project for code generation?
    - how many sequence diagrams do you have?
    - are the sequence diagrams created inside the package or just under the Model level scoping?
    - do you have other diagrams in the project too? If so, what type and how many of each type?
    - any other info you can provide will help
    Thanks,
    Peter

  • Message order in Papyrus sequence diagram xmi file

    Dear all,
    I would like to ask you if you could help me by explaining me how message ordering information of Papyrus sequence diagrams is represented in the corresponding xmi files.
    For each lifeline, I would assume that the order of messages is shown in the xmi file in the coveredBy attribute of the respective lifeline element.
    If yes, I have observed that the order there is not shown correctly. Adding a message seems to be always appended at the end of the messages list, instead of being inserted inbetween its neighbouring messages.
    If no, then how can I get from the xmi file the message order for a single lifeline?
    I am using just two simple lifelines exchanging messages, without any combined fragments or complex notation. My Eclipse version is Luna, and I just downloaded the Papyrus 1.1.0 version, the one that Mars uses.
    Thank you a lot in advance. Any information you could provide me regarding this issue would be extremely useful.
    Best regards,
    Alkis

    Since I haven't still got any answer, let me rephrase the question and make it more general:
    Do Papyrus sequence diagrams store message order information?
    As far as I have understood, they should, but I believe that it is a Papyrus bug that, when creating a new message, order of MessageOccurrenceSpecification fragments in XMI file is most frequently not respected. The same can be seen from the MessageOccurrenceSpecification fragments in the Model Explorer for the respective interaction in Papyrus IDE, order of them frequently seems random.
    Another thing which I strongly believe is a bug is that, when creating a new combined fragment sometimes the lifeline information of message events in the XMI file gets lost (attribute 'coveredBy' of each lifeline, and attribute 'covered' of each MessageOccurenceSpecification fragment get blank).
    In any case, I would be really grateful if someone could answer my initial question so that I know that these assumptions are correct, find a way to temporarily circumvent the problem and file a bug report about that.
    Best regards,
    Alkis

  • Reducing the width of a sequence diagram

    Does anyone know how to reduce the width of a reverse-engineered sequence diagram?
    Studio sequence diagrams are very wide in relation to their height. This is because horizontal messages are separated by only small amounts, but the vertical lifelines are separated by large amounts, especially if the objects have long names and class names.
    This feature causes problems when trying to export diagrams to A4 landscape pages.
    In other UML editors, I could overcome this problem by arranging the objects as in two rows of "bricks" along the top of the page. The first object would be in a "normal" position. The second object was positioned high enough to partially overlap the first object. The third object was placed in the "normal" position, but partially below the second object. And so on.
    This allowed the width of a sequence diagram to be reduced to almost half of its original width.
    This is not possible in Studio, because:
    1) The objects cannot be moved vertically.
    2) Even if they could be moved vertically, they will not allow themselves to overlap another object. This is because the bounding box of the objects extends right down to the foot of the lifeline. (I don't know if "bounding box" is the correct term. I mean the box with the sizing handles.) When one object is dragged to the left so that it overlaps another object, any objects to the left of the dragged object immediately jumpfurther to the left.
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    petersl wrote:
    Found a better way to duplicate the sequence diagram
    as a workaround for the Save As function.Great suggestion! Thanks!
    Because of the estimated large amount of sequence diagrams that I need to do, your tip will save me hours of work. Even if "Save As" is implemented, it will not be much faster than your method.
    Here is an interesting feature of your suggestion.
    All my experimentation is done using the BankAccount tutorial. I have several "copies" of the same operation. Each copy was produced using "Reverse Engineer Operation" on the class operation in the dependency diagram. I then modified each "copy" beyond all recognition.
    If I now invoke "Create Diagram from Selected Elements" on the sequence diagram interaction node for each copy, each new diagram is the same as the original reverse-engineered diagram :)
    BTW, here is my non-techie solution for copying. No LOL please.
    In the project file location, there are two files for each sequence diagram. For example:
    mainSD_1168604900517.etld
    mainSD_1168604900517.etlp
    These files can be copied. However, they must be copied to file names that are registered by studio.
    1) Copy the two files, using arbitrary file names.
    1) Reverse engineer a new sequence diagram simply to get two more file names.
    2) Rename the two copies to these new file names :)
    3) In the project tree in studio, this would produce duplicate diagram names. So in the ETLP file rename the diagram using the <diagramInfo> tag.
    You might wonder why I go to so much trouble to produce a copy, rather than simply reverse-engineer as many copies as I need. The answer is that on the first sequence diagram, I would like to make changes that persist in every other copy of that diagram, even after messages and lifelines are removed to split the diagram.
    Compared with my method, your method will allow me to take a couple of months off, and still produce the same amount of work :)

  • Message text in sequence diagrams not displaying in editor

    I split a large sequence diagram into smaller parts so that the parts could be included as graphics in a user manual.
    Here is how I split the diagram:
    1) Create the single large diagram. Name the diagram "SD".
    2) This diagram produces an SD_etlp and an SD_etld file.
    2) Copy these two files to different names. Eg SD_etlp_01 and SD_etld_01.
    2) Delete 10 messages from the bottom of the original diagram. Save.
    3) Copy the two files to SD_etlp_02 and SD_etld_02.
    And so on.
    So the diagram editor only sees the original file name. But this file is actually getting smaller and smaller. I can re-edit any of the saved files by changing their name back to the original file name as seen by the diagram editor.
    I produced about 10 smaller sequence diagrams without problem.
    On the latest sequence diagram in the editor, I lost all the message text. Everything else was fine. (I think I shortened the lifelines too much so they encroached on the actual messages. Note that I do not shorten lifelines in the editor, because these changes are not persistent. I edit the lifeline heights in the ETLP file.)
    Losing the message text should not have been a problem. Because I thought that all I had to do was return to one of the earlier diagrams and start again.
    However, on returning to all the previous saved diagrams, all the message text had disappeared from those diagrams as well. (I had already printed out those diagrams, so I haven't lost everything.)
    When I open the ETLD files, I can see all the missing message text for each diagram, for example:
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    Can anyone tell me how to show these messages on the diagrams?

    When I select "Show Message Numbers" , all text is displayed as "1:"
    If I right-click on an individual message, "Show Message Name" is not checked. If I check it, it says "Unnamed".
    I may have introduced a corruption as follows:
    1) One message text disappeared. This may have been due to the excessive amount of manual dragging on large diagrams (see later).
    2) I right-clicked on the message. Select "Show Message Name".
    3) The text "Unnamed" was displayed.
    ( I now know that "Unnamed" will be displayed for any message, even when message text is displayed :)
    4) I typed "public void logout( )"
    5) This produced the correct text on the diagram.
    Some effects of this were:
    1) In the model, a message was added to the contents of "Messages", named "public void logout()". All the other messages are simply called "Message".
    2) There is an entry in ".QueryCache" file:
    nodeType_="Message" name="public void logout( )" id="DCE.14D184C9-7052-ECFE-D9E9-48CB83B1E357" fullName="public void logout( )"/><Name nodeType_="Lifeline" name="self" id="DCE.37BD6533-F0C0-FDF8-7391-521338CD4F86"
    This is the only cache file entry that relates to messages.
    If I can roll back the changes made by typing "public void logout( )", would that cure the problem?
    1) As well as noticing that the message text is still in the ETLD file, I also see that, for each message:
    <visible value="true"/>
    I have been backing up matched pairs of ETLP and ETLD files which earlier produced good diagrams. If these files later produce a diagram in which the message text is missing, then there must be at least one other file that has been corrupted. Does anyone know what other files I should back up to produce a self-consistent set of files that can be used for recovery?
    By the way, here is the reason that I am spending so much time trying to recover message text rather than simply regenerating the model. The diagram has 250 messages. The horizontal spacing between some objects is equal to 20 times the width of one object. This means that I have a lot of dragging to do. Each manual action increases the risk that some error will be made (and usually is). Even at 5% zoom, the diagram is several screens wide, so messages can be disappearing off-screen without my knowledge. Simply closing up the objects takes two days work, because there are several combined fragments boxes which must be handled very delicately, or message text disappears.

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