Hi Janko!

Michael Perscheid at HPI showed us his nice UML addon for squeak. Its extracting the mental model out of Smalltalk Source, drawing editable UML diagrams, that even are able to change the source.

Reminds me to IBM Rational Rose, but much more advanced.

IMHO, this tool should be tightly intergrated into Pharo, porting should be easy.

best, Guido Stepken

> I have a feeling that Smalltalkers tend to avoid UML because of
> complexity (it is complex, true), but it can be used pragmatically and
> tailored to our use. Visualworks for instance have an nice UML class
> editor called ADvance (see an example [1]), but it seems hardly anyone
> use it.
>
> At least class diagrams are very useful for documenting the domain
> model. Just code is not enough. We are very weak here and maybe this is
> a reason why people find Smalltalk hard. Because they are lost in all
> that code, without any higher level picture.
>
> Janko
>
> [1] http://www.aidaweb.si/party-framework
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> Janko Miv��ek
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