[Xastir-dev] Topic: Supported Platforms, Xastir-NG

[Gerry Creager]

Sorry for top posting but: Lock down to ANSI class libs and we save a 
lot of headaches.  It's the vendor-specific class libs that bite you.

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:43:57PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Tom Russo wrote:
>>
>>> Well, there's bouml, argouml, eclipse...
>> Eclipse I know.  I'm using it for J2EE and GWT work right now.  Have
>> it installed at work and at home.  I haven't gotten into UML before,
>> but there must be plugins for Eclipse.  Once the model is done in
>> UML, can some of the initial code be auto-generated?
> 
> Yep.  Class and method definitions, possibly more detailed code.  Some
> tools advertise "round-trip engineering" where you're supposed to be 
> able to generate code from the UML, hack it, then pull it back in and
> be able to manipulate it at the UML level.  Never seen it work properly
> even in very pricey tools.
> 
>>> I've not had a lot of confidence in the design tools past the initial
>>> design process.  They try to be things you can use throughout the life-cycle,
>>> but mostly they're a hassle.
>> I've heard that a lot of people do it that way, abandon the design
>> tools after the initial coding is done.
> 
> We did at work.  The initial design was very heavy on the UML and design tools,
> but that was dropped very, very soon after the first prototype.
> 

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