AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  source code conversion          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Software Tools View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Martin Baker Guest Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:44 am    Post subject: source code conversion Since I have Java, C# and C++ versions of my open source program ( http://www.euclideanspace.com/ ) I would like to have some automation to help with the manual conversion between these types of source code. I would also like some automation for generating UML diagrams. I had this idea that this could be done by storing programs in a common format, call it say: "XML structured Java", once its in this form we could then use XSLT and similar tools to convert between the different source codes. I had a search on Sourceforge to see it I could find any existing code and it looks like someone else has had the same idea: (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlcode) but nothing seems to have been done on this project for the past 4 years. Do you think a very quick and dirty version of this could be implemented quickly? I had another search on Sourceforge for programs which might provide the functionality required and I came up with the following diagram: http://www.euclideanspace.com/software/language/convert/index.htm Is this practical? Are there any better ways to do this? Should I use Eclipse instead? Are there any better GPL open source programs? How much 'glue' programming would be required to make all this work together, not perfectly, but enough to make it useful for source code conversion. Back to top Ira Baxter Guest Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:47 pm    Post subject: Re: source code conversion "Martin Baker" <bakerm (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Since I have Java, C# and C++ versions of my open source program ( http://www.euclideanspace.com/ ) I would like to have some automation to help with the manual conversion between these types of source code. I would also like some automation for generating UML diagrams. I had another search on Sourceforge Are there any better ways to do this? You might consider a program transformation tool. See the DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit. http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/DMS/DMSToolkit.html. In general, it is pretty hard to translate between these three languages because they have different semantic foundations. If you stick to really vanilla code, this might be easy, otherwise you'll have a difficult time writing the translation rules, or you'll get partial translation and have to hand-patch the result (which might be OK for your).. -- Ira D. Baxter, Ph.D., CTO 512-250-1018 Semantic Designs, Inc. www.semdesigns.com ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Software Tools All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.