Re: Programmatic manipulation of "live" models in ArgoUML

Hi Tom,

It didn't require changing the Java source files but is not a plugin 
either. I've modified the argouml.ini to add another details tab through 
which I've then able to access the RootPane and then used something as 
ugly as

BorderSplitPane root = (BorderSplitPane) getComponent(getRootPane(),new 
int[]{1,0,0,4},0);
root.add(titlePanel, BorderLayout.EAST);

to add the "Wizards" panel on the right side

I've also had to use reflection to access the UmlPackage implementation:

    protected UmlPackage getInternalUmlPackage() throws Exception {
       
        Facade facade = Model.getFacade();
       
        Field[] fields = facade.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
        Field implField = null;
       
        for (int i=0;i<fields.length;i++){
            if(fields[i].getName().equals("implementation")){
                implField = fields[i];
                break;
            }
        }
       
        AccessibleObject.setAccessible(new 
AccessibleObject[]{implField}, true);
       
        ModelImplementation implementation =  (ModelImplementation) 
implField.get(facade);
       
        fields = implementation.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
        Field implUmlPackage = null;
       
        for (int i=0;i<fields.length;i++){
            if(fields[i].getName().equals("umlPackage")){
                implUmlPackage = fields[i];
                break;
            }
        }
       
        AccessibleObject.setAccessible(new 
AccessibleObject[]{implUmlPackage}, true);
       
        return (UmlPackage) implUmlPackage.get(implementation);
   
    }

Finally, I had to modify the meta-inf/manifest.mf in argouml-mdr.jar to 
prepend argoumlepsilon.jar (the implementation of EWL and the 
integration classes) and antlr-2.7.5.jar (as ArgoUML ships with an older 
version of Antlr than the one I need for EWL)

Is there a way to accomplish the above and deliver this extension as a 
proper plugin?

Cheers,
Dimitrios

Tom Morris wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Dimitrios Kolovos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>>  We have made available an extended version of ArgoUML (based on v0.20)
>> which provides support for programmatic manipulation of "live" ArgoUML
>> models using a dedicated OCL-based executable language (EWL).  A Flash
>> screencast is available at www.kolovos.eu/epsilon/argouml/screencast.php.
>> Instructions on obtaining this extended version and learning more about EWL
>> are available at www.kolovos.eu/epsilon/argouml/. For now, only a binary
>> version has been released - however if this is of interest to the community,
>> we are happy to release the source code as well.
>>     
>
> Cool.  Is this packaged as a plugin that is usable with other versions
> of ArgoUML or have you modified the core sources?
>
> If you were forced to modify the core, it would be useful to know what
> extension points were missing (presuming you haven't already requested
> them as enhancements in the issue database).
>
> Tom
>
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