[FLOW3-general] FLOW and UML

Mathis Hoffmann mathis at hoffpost.de
Thu Mar 28 20:02:11 CET 2013


Hi,

I'm an IT student who is going to realize a software-project using FLOW. 
I am not really new to FLOW but so far I only read through the 
documentation of FLOW and tested some of the features by programming 
small code-snippeds.

My professor told me that I should use MagicDraw to perform the 
modelling-part and to document how the application works. Therefore I 
started to model the application as a MagicDraw class-diagram. Now I'm 
going to start developing and I therefore I'm searching for any 
possibility to generate FLOW-code (especially FLOW-models) out of my 
MagicDraw-diagrams. Does anyone know how I can achieve that?

Up to now I found out that I can export the class-diagram as an 
UML2-Model that I can open with Eclipse-UML2. I also figured out that 
there is a tool called Acceleo that is able to generate code using 
UML2-Models. It can even generate PHP-code but that is, as you can 
imagine, far away from being FLOW-compatible. It's possible to write 
custom generators for Acceleo but that seems to be complex (would be a 
seperate project ;).

I would be really happy if someone had a simple solution that saves me 
from writing everything by hand.

Thank's in advance!
Mathis Hoffmann


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