Spring Tools 4 now bridges the gap between your source code and running Spring Boot applications.
The all-new Spring Tools 4 provides smart code completions for the Spring elements in your app. Smart Code EditingĬode completion is a critical part of working with source code. Finding Spring elements and navigating to them has never been easier. The new Spring Tools 4 understands your Spring-Boot-based source code and allows you to quickly get an overview and navigate to the important pieces of your Spring apps. Understanding and quickly navigating source code is essential for coding. Navigate your Spring code at the speed of light A direct and easy-to-use integration of the Spring Initializr and the famous Spring Guides allows you to go from nothing to a running Spring Boot app in seconds. Spring Tool Suite 4 makes it easy to get started.
Largely rebuilt from scratch, it provides world-class support for developing Spring-Boot-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, or Atom IDE. Reverse engineering a real sequence diagram seems to be quite non-trivial.Spring Tools 4 is the next generation of Spring tooling for your favorite coding enrivonment. For example, you get a color-coded execution hot spot analysis on the side of the diagram as a bonus.īut it seems that even the expensive tools boasting round-trip code engineering like Enterprise Architect offer nothing more than tracing (and admittedly much nicer graphics). On the other hand, TPTP offers you much more that a sequence diagram. Even the diagram title sucks, being a cryptic 50-odd character monstrosity you cant change. This means - no loops, no conditions, no notes and such. There is one big bitter pill to swallow though : what you get is an execution trace in disguise of a sequence diagram.
You can then print the diagram, effectively exporting it to pdf, tiff, eps and other formats via your favorite file printer.
After installing TPTP from the regular Eclipse update site, follow these steps : That crystallized over the last few days after trying a number of different solutions. TPTP seems to be the only real option so far.
I am getting an impression, that there is simply no such thing (yet?) as a free UML sequence diagram reverse engineering eclipse plug-in working out of the box. I also read following posts on the topic : featuring commercial options, too general (not seq diagrams), also too general, featuring standalone commercial solutionsīy working out of the box i mean - the default installation is not broken and there is an option like "generate sequence diagram" or similar resulting in a (modifiable would be great) sequence diagram. Java Call Tracer is just a bunch of files with pages of options to apply to the JVM directly and there is no executable. Jsonde started only after i fixed a msvcr71.dll-error and was then unable to connect to the VM for reasons unknown. And also some standalone tools - ArgoUML and BOUML either dont provide this feature or at least i was not able to find it. I tried (though not very comprehensively) numerous solutions including ModelGoon (only class and interaction diagrams available), ObjectAid (class diagram only), eUML free edition (quits with an ominous "license not found" error on first use), MoDisco (with the only option on the menu being "browse corresponding model element").