Structure101 lets you work with both structure (the whole code-base as it is) and architecture (the subset of the structure that you really care about, and how it should be). It lets you define the architecture in the context of … Continue reading
This update now checks for architecture violations automatically when you do a build (previous version was “on-demand” only). More on structure101 IDE plug-ins.
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