Hi
I would like to announce a new project at WEG (Univ. Sydney).
We are working in a CASE tool for openacs: do a UML design and the system generates the oacs code for it.
The system is based on
ArgoUML a great -pure Java- GPL'd modelling tool. At this stage you can do a simple class diagram and the program will create the openacs data model (create and drop files). Instead of taking the notes package and then changing the code by hand (as I used to do) you can start with a full datamodel implemented in 5 minutes.
A first prototype was developed by Michael Wu and is available at:
http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au/people/laetitia/
Laetitia Duby will be following on his work for the next 6 months and we would appreciate the community's input.
What she is planning to do is to add a hypertext model (a super plain /www directory in openacs) to the tool. In a first stage it would be the creating of widgets for each of the classes in the class diagram.
The specs are not fully defined so I would appreciaate if people plays with what we have, and provide some feedback.
cheers
Rafael
