[Koha-devel] RFC 3.2: Autogeneration of Koha UML diagrams

[Zeno Tajoli]

Hi to all,

from first day of October 2008 CILEA is going to support a project 
about Koha as student stage (followd by me).
We want to improve tecnical documentation about Koha 3.0 (I hope to 
have a stable release for october !!).
Starting from perl scripts avaible from internet we want to develop a 
script that read Koha API (C4 dir) and write a .xmi file
with an UML rappresentation of classes, methods and usage of methods.

In fact a work like this is possible only if API are written in a 
precise standard of coding. It thimk it s , as I know. But this is also
  a good check.
We will report all problems we found, to be fixed in 3.2

We also write complete E-R diagrams for Koha DB and a specific 
document for every table

But now the .xmi file in fact needs to be sligthy different for every UML tool.
We can work with two Open source tool, ArgoUML and Umbrello
We can usa also Rational Rose (the biggest commercial tool for UML).
Which tool do you prefer ?

If you think it is a useful project, I will insert it into RFCs for 
Koha 3.2 <http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2>

Bye


Zeno Tajoli
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