I am studying the topic of rapid prototyping at the university for 2nd / 3rd year students.
Can anyone recommend a (free) way to create a class hierarchy on the GUI graphical surface in Eclipse?
The UML surfaces in Eclipse modeling tools are almost perfect, but I cannot find documentation on how to link them to java source files.
Leaving aside your personal ideology about how software should be developed, it is very important to have a visual tool.
I was spoiled in a visual studio with a bi-directional designer for matching sources. I was hoping to provide a similar tool for my students, but I need advice for this to happen.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
UPDATE: I am not actually participating in OOD the next semester, but on rapid prototyping and software architecture. The goal of this subject is to teach some quick design techniques to use design patterns using web page delivery services, etc. OOD students currently use BlueJ. This topic aims to raise it and push it at the deep end of a real IDE.
UPDATE I play with NetBeans w / UML addon, and it is very good. The only problem is that this requires the manual buttons "generate code" and "reverse engineering code." The path is better than Eclipse. While Netbeans wins the war.