Create class diagram from already existent iphone code

Question

Hey, does anybody know, how i could create automatically a UML class diagram from an already existent iphone project. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with UML, so this might be of any help, but I know that if you select your project file within XCode (at the very top of the Groups and Files pane) you can then go to Design->Class Model->Quick Model and it will show you how your classes are related to each other.

Answer 2

iphone use a specific OS and not the standard Java Sun SDK. It is today impossible to mix both OS because iphone SDK compilation is not the same as SDK compilation. Project natures are also different.

btw, if you look how to code on iphone or google phone this mainly xml and few codes which could not really be modeled within an object approach. It is certainly possible to model the Jee server and deploy on iphone. The problem is that today I only see iphone and cloud. It means that if you deploy on iphone or Google phone and also cloud option then there is no need for object modeling because complexity is hidden by the cloud provider.

So don't model iphone or maybe just create few deployment, component, state diagrams not related to class diagram project architecture which seems to me impossible to model with iphone and cloud providers.

Answer 3

See http://www.reversejava.com for a dynamic reverse engineering application which generates UML Sequence diagram and view of Participating Class diagram from any Java Application at runtime All you have to do is just run your application and sit back. Reverse Java runs in background tracing all the activities happening inside your application and creates UML diagram for you.

You also have options for, excluding packages,editing the Sequence diagram and exporting the diagrams as PDF or Image.

And its not expensive !