quartz/content/notes/uml-java-reverse-engineering.md

title	aliases	tags
uml-java-reverse-engineering	reverse engineering	info201

Java -> UML reverse engineering

reverse of uml-java-forward-engineering

• parse java docs and generate corresponding uml diagrams
• useful to generate models of existing systems
• code usually has more detail than can be represented in diagrams
• automated diagram layout likely to be ugly ⇒ manual clean up
• some language specific features may not translate