Taming wild class diagrams with a filter script
Part 6 of 8. Text book class diagrams have a handy few classes each with a small number of members which illustrate a point. Java programmers don't write classes with pretty looking class diagrams in mind. Typically, real Java projects contain a large number of classes and each class has a large number of members. The result is that reverse engineering a class diagram results in an ugly class diagram too detailed and sprawling to depict anything useful about the object oriented design behind it. This part of the tutorial shows, using a real world open source project, Apache Commons Codec, how a cluttered diagram can be tweaked to show just certain members, and how to colour the classes so they can be more easily distinguished.
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