Generated Sequence Diagrams
Dec.05, 2007 in
Java, development
I saw this tool used in some Doxygen docs recently and I knew immediately that it would be indispensable for generating sequence diagrams for online docs on wikis. I’ll wrap it in a confluence macro and post here when its all done (unless someone points me to an existing implementation). It would also be fantastic to have a Java port of this, but I won’t be picky. 
So as in the example, this:
# MSC for some fictional process
msc { a,b,c; a->b [ label = "ab()" ] ;
b->c [ label = "bc(TRUE)"];
c=>c [ label = "process(1)" ];
c=>c [ label = "process(2)" ];
...;
c=>c [ label = "process(n)" ];
c=>c [ label = "process(END)" ];
a<<=c [ label = "callback()"];
--- [ label = "If more to run", ID="*" ];
a->a [ label = "next()"];
a->c [ label = "ac1()\nac2()"];
b<-c [ label = "cb(TRUE)"];
b->b [ label = "stalled(...)"];
a<-b [ label = "ab() = FALSE"];
}
Becomes:
December 6th, 2007 at 6:05 am
I found two tools to do this back in the Summer, one of which was an app named Sequence (http://www.zanthan.com/itymbi/archives/cat_sequence.html) and some other app I can’t remember now. Each one was interesting, but not what I was looking for.