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MoDisco/JavaDiscoverer2
The goal of the Java Discoverer plug-in is to allow practical extractions of Java models from Java projects.
Description
This plug-in aims at analyzing Java source code compliant with version 3 of "Java Language Specification" from Sun Microsystems and providing a model describing the information found, conforming to the Java metamodel.
A Java model contains the full abstract syntax tree of the Java program: each statement such as attribute definition, method invocation or loop is described. In addition, links between elements are resolved (by resolved link we mean for instance a link between a method invocation and the declaration of this method, or between the usage of a variable and its declaration). The model can thus be seen as an abstract syntax graph (ASG).
Requirements
To use the plug-in you need:
- JDK 1.5 or above
- a version of Eclipse 3.3 or above with the following set of plug-ins installed
- EMF 2.3.0 or higher
- ATL 2.0.0 or higher
- Java metamodel
Team
Gabriel Barbier (Mia-Software)
Fabien Giquel (Mia-Software)
Frédéric Madiot (Mia-Software)
Source Repository
All of the source code is stored in a public source repository, which you can access at:
User manual
The plug-in provides the user with a contextual menu to easily create models.
By right-clicking on a Java Project in the Eclipse Package Explorer view, you can quickly create the Java model of your application (see next Figure).
A progress bar will appear at the bottom of the window as soon as the operation begins. Depending on the size of your application, the reverse engineering process might take some time to complete (see next Figure).
At the end of the process, the newly created model files are added to the root of your project and are automatically opened in the default editor (see next Figure).
.javaxmi files can be opened in the Sample Ecore Model Editor (see next Figure).
They can also be opened in the MoDisco model browser (see next Figure) which brings some graphical improvements.
