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Understanding other people's code or your own code in complex systems is a challenging problem in software development. This plugin supports developers in learning the dependencies and couplings in object oriented systems. Three major plugin-functions can be used:

• class cloud diagram • graphical navigation between dependent classes • creation of UML diagrams

The class cloud diagram should be used as a first step when trying to understand an object oriented system. It shows all project classes in a single diagram as a cloud, very similar to tag clouds known from web-applications. Some of the most important classes can such be found by using the class cloud to be further investigated by using the graphical navigator or the source code. Graphical navigation can be used to find and understand all dependencies (using classes, used classes, extending classes and extended classes of some subject class). As soon as the developer has understood which classes interact in which way, UML diagrams should be created that condense this knowledge. Though it is really helpful to have at least some UML diagrams, many software systems are not documented well or the existing diagrams are totally outdated. This plugin helps to create static class diagrams that always can be kept in sync with the current state of a system. The new functions can be accessed by a new menu item in the Analyze menu of the main menu bar ( Analyze Class Cloud) and two new menu items in the project view and editor popup menus ( Show in Graphical Navigator and Add to UML Diagram).

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