Here are some architecture diagrams for Spring Framework 2.1 M3 (released yesterday). You can point the (free) structure101 plug-in at these and get IDE warnings if your customizations break Jeurgen’s architecture. Here is the top level breakout of org.springframework: Structure101 … Continue reading
In an excellent on-line presentation Juergen Hoeller gives rationale and guidelines for controlling the structure of large, evolving code-bases. Juergen is the chief architect of the Spring framework, which as I have previously pointed out is structurally almost perfect. This … Continue reading
This has just been made available for download. It displays architecture diagrams within the IDE, and warns if any code changes are inconsistent with the target architecture. It works more or less like the structure101 Eclipse plug-in except that for … Continue reading
The new version of structure101 lets you define concise, layered architecture diagrams and publish them so that the whole team sees them in Eclipse and gets warnings if they make code changes that are out of whack with the architecture. … Continue reading
If you are going mad trying to figure out the dependencies between lots of Eclipse plug-ins, or work with other large OSGi systems, you may be interested in this. We’ve had a few people looking for an Eclipse/OSGi backend for … Continue reading