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Reverse engineering of UML specifications from java programs

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OOPSLA '04: Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1028664.1028786

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In the present work, we outline a reverse engineering approach for UML specifications in form of class diagrams from Java bytecode. After a brief introduction to the subject we present some analyses which go beyond mere enumeration of methods and fields. A glance onto some related work shows that there seems to be no pat solution for the reverse engineering of the more difficult class diagram elements.

We sketch our method of determining association multiplicities, being, in a sense, representative of our approach in general: "intuitive" analyses, producing results that can be understood by a programmer when inspecting the source code of a given class.

Finally, we introduce a tool that implements this work and we apply it onto a small real life example, discussing the results it gave.

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OOPSLA '04: Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

October 2004

348 pages

ISBN:1581138334

DOI:10.1145/1028664

Conference Chair:
John Vlissides
IBM Research
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Vanderbilt University
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Coherence Engine

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