[Springframework-developer] Graphviz Visualization of Bean Defs (was Re: Creating documentation from Spring beans definition files)

[Don B. <mr...@tw...>]

I merged my version I created this morning with yours - attached is the 
result.

Differences:
 * Use of the Mrecord shape to embed properties inside of bean objects
 * Seperate structure for lists and maps
 * No duplication of beans, ie refs don't get their own structure
 * Referenced beans connect at the property they are referenced

For fun, I applied it to a moderately complex Spring config file for a 
pet project of mine:
http://www.twdata.org/dakine/beans.png

Don

Daniel Potter wrote:

>Here is the stylesheet and an Ant snippet that shows how to generate a graph (as
>postscript and gif) as part of a build.  The XSL is not pretty and would need
>some work for it to handle all possible configuration options allowed by the
>Spring DTD.  It should work as-is for most Spring config files, but it doesn't
>handle nested maps and lists, and doesn't even recognize sets (altho that would
>be trivial to add).  It could be a good starting point for something more
>thorough however.
>
>Also, this XSL includes all property values in the graph (not just bean
>dependencies).  This can clutter the graph up pretty quickly for
>moderate-to-complex configurations.  It would probably be more useful to only
>include bean dependencies in the graph, not all configuration properties
>(basically, <value/> properties).
>
>If anyone makes improvements to the XSL, please post them back to this (or the
>user) list so everyone can benefit.
>
>Enjoy.
>
>Daniel
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