Generate diagrams without spring

[lukaskirchhart]

Hi
I want to start with jMolecules by adding a few "package-info.java" files in my packages and generate a few diagrams out of it.
But I work in a big and old Java project without spring.
For generating diagrams I think I need the "Documenter" from spring-monolith project, which needs spring...

Is there a way to generate diagrams (let's say for @modules) without spring or without "Documenter"?

Kindest regards
Lukas

[StephanPirnbaum]

Hi Lukas,

you could use jQAssistant to generate diagrams from jMolecules annotations, e.g. from @BoundedContext. jQAssistant basically scans source code and additional information (build system, XML, JSON, ...) into a Neo4J graph database which you can query and, as jQA comes as a Maven plugin, can execute queries against it during build time. The results of those queries can be reported as PlantUML, ContextMapper diagrams, and GraphML.

There is an integration of jMolecules into jQAssistant which you can use as a first step[1]. To generate a Context Map, please see [2]. For PlantUML, see [3] and [4]. And for GraphML, see [5].

FYI you are not limited to reporting jMolecules Bounded Context, but can basically report any structure of your system as a diagram, depending on the diagram type.

Let me know if you have further questions or need help creating a base setup.

Best
Stephan

[1] https://github.com/jqassistant-plugin/jqassistant-jmolecules-plugin
[2] https://github.com/jqassistant-plugin/jqassistant-context-mapper-plugin
[3] https://github.com/jqassistant-plugin/jqassistant-plantuml-report-plugin
[4] https://github.com/jqassistant-plugin/jqassistant-plantuml-report-plugin/blob/master/src/main/asciidoc/report.adoc
[5] https://github.com/jqassistant-plugin/jqassistant-graphml-plugin