This menu provides support for code generation from UML diagrams. The functionality is built around the structural information of class diagrams.
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Without any plugins installed, ArgoUML supports only code generation of Java. ArgoUML V0.14 supports the following languages by plugin: C#, C++, php. |
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Code generation is still very much a work in progress. The current version of ArgoUML will generate a structural template for your code, but is not able to handle behavioral specifications to generate code for the dynamic behavior of the model. |
This menu entry brings up a dialog box for the ArgoUML code
generator (see
Figure 9.16, “The dialog for Generate Selected
Classes…
.”).
Below a label Available Classes
the dialog
box lists each of the selected classes by name with a check box to the
left, for each language installed.
All the checkboxes are initially unchecked.
Checking any of these boxes will
cause code generation for that class.
Checking multiple languages for a class causes it to be generated in
all these languages.
The buttons Select All
and
Select None
may help
when a lot of items have to be selected or deselected.
In the lower portion of the dialog box is
an editable combo box labeled
Output Directory
to specify the directory in
which code is generated. Within this directory, a top level directory
will be created with the name of the model. Further sub-directories
will be created to reflect the package/namespace hierarchy of the
model. A drop down selector gives access to previously selected output
directories.
Finally, at the bottom of the dialog box are two buttons, labeled
Generate
and Cancel
. Button 1 click on
the former will cause the code to be generated, button 1 click on the latter
will cancel code generation.
Shortcut F7.
This function behaves as
Generate Selected Classes…
(see
Section 9.8.1, “Generate Selected Classes …”) would with all
classes in the
current diagram
selected.