making a tool - help needed greatly!

[Vish Green]

hay all, what i am trying to do is develop a tool which takes as input basic UML models and outputs a basic ecommerce system.
For example: a sequence diagram which shows: "select item", "enter payment details", "buy item"
is as input, and the tool outputs an ecommerce application which shows this ordering/sequence.
How do i go about doing this??? its a university project so right now i dont have a clue
Many thanks guys

[manish p]

Hi Vish, I think you may be a bit too ambitious here and dig yourself into a deep hole. Say you managed to convert the objects in your UML diagram into java classes, how are you going to generate the queries to your database ? Also how are you going to generate the JSP's from the UML model ? You may want to download a trial/student version of TogetherJ. This tool will generate the 'skeleton' java code given an UML model, the developer will still need to 'add the meat'. I suggest that you create something similar to this.

[Vish Green]

Hi - thanks for the reply.
does togetherJ work the same as rational rose?

[Desai Sandeep]

Hi Vish,
There are some tools available in the market to do this for you.There is a firm by a name of Ensemble Systems Inc. which integrates the best UML modelling tools with the best Java IDE available in the market.
For example, you have Rose Link for IBM VisualAge for Java (VAJ) by which you can reverse-engineer VAJ projects to Rose UML artifacts.Likewise, any updates made in these diagrams could be reflected in the VAJ projects.
Infact, now-a-days you find IDE having intergrated modelling tools with it.Oracle latest release of its IDE, JDeveloper 9i is an example of it.
Hope this helps,
Sandeep
SCJP2,OCSD(Oracle JDeveloper),OCED(Oracle Internet Platform)
[This message has been edited by Desai Sandeep (edited August 21, 2001).]

[Jes Sie]

Originally posted by Desai Sandeep:
Infact, now-a-days you find IDE having intergrated modelling tools with it.Oracle latest release of its IDE, JDeveloper 9i is an example of it.
Hope this helps,
Sandeep
SCJP2,OCSD(Oracle JDeveloper),OCED(Oracle Internet Platform)
[This message has been edited by Desai Sandeep (edited August 21, 2001).][/B]

Together 5.X does that well too.

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