Tools for visualizing, understanding how your classes relate to one another

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At times I find myself struggling to navigate the object landscape of a large, legacy system having 100+ classes.

This seems like a fairly common challenge.

I'm just curious if there are any highly recommended tools out there that compile your source code and produce some kind of visualization of how your objects relate to one another.

Thanks.

Checkout this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51786/recommended-eclipse-plugins-to-generate-uml-from-java-code — Kevin Bowersox, Jun 17 '11 at 21:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 17 '11 at 21:10

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Check out CDA and their quick start guide.

answered Jun 17 '11 at 21:10

CoolBeans

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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You can generate an UML Class Diagram using reverse engineering with tools like ArgoUML.

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answered Jun 17 '11 at 21:13

Marcelo

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '11 at 21:14

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There are many good reverse engineering tools are available. Some are commercialy availbale like Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect and visual paradigm. In Open source I like Star UML, Argo UML. Class dependency analyzer is also good one.

answered Jun 17 '11 at 21:14

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Tools for visualizing, understanding how your classes relate to one another

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