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5.9. Code Generation Subsystem

Purpose: Point where the different languages register that they know how to do code generation and common functions for all languages.

The Code Generation is located in org.argouml.language.

The Code Generation subsystem is a Control subsystem. See Section 4.5, “View and Control subsystems”.

The code to generate various languages that is supplied with ArgoUML is found in sub-packages of org.argouml.language. In the case of languages other than Java, these classes will come from independent projects and be packaged separately even though they share this package name space.

[Warning]Warning
NOTE: There is a potential conflict here if two separate language implementations use this name space in an uncoordinated fashion (e.g. two Ruby implementations using org.argouml.language.ruby).

  • All source language code generators must implement the org.argouml.uml.generator.CodeGenerator interface.

  • All modules must implement the org.argouml.moduleloader.ModuleInterface interface.

  • At initialization time, each language registers themselves using org.argouml.uml.generator.GeneratorManager.