Rolf Lampa wrote:
a. cremer wrote:
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> Furthermore I am still struggling with the mediawiki project structure.
> Any hints where I can find more information on that?
>
You are not alone on that one...
What I'd like to see would be a kind of a class diagram and/or some
dependency diagrams revealing some of the internal logic of Mediawiki.
From experience with MDA I do know (yes I really do) that *not all* the
aspects of a system can be captured in a class- nor only a database
diagram (I used Borland's "Bold", now CodeGear's - "Eco"). For
example
"Behavior" would not be captured at all, but Behavior unfortunately
covers some ~ 50% of a system(?).
However, a class diagram and/or a database relations diagram really
really would help.
Someone who wants to gradually document their increasing insights from
their "research" of the Mediawiki platform and internal structure could
use, for example, StarUML (free) to try capture their new insights in
UML diagrams (preferably class and sequence diagrams, in that order).
Perhaps the developer team could then review such diagrams and comment
on their "correctness" and gradually a very compact system documentation
would take form - if they don't already have such diagrams somewhere, no?
Curiosity:
As I was one of the first to use MDA for designing a "full" enterprise
business system (from scratch) with Borland's Model Driven Architecture
(Bold MDA, for Delphi), I can tell that the first UML model of the
(Bold/ECO) system was drawn by, not the architects or core developers of
the Bold Architecture, but instead it was drawn by a friend of mine who
wanted to get down to the bones with it(!). Now, when the Bold core
developer team saw the diagrams he had drawn they asked him if he could
think of letting them use it to document their technical platform. Of
course they could. Now, the interesting bit in all this was of course
that Bold/Eco is a platform which was explicitly designed for
automagically executing exactly such UML models, which they lacked in
the very original lab... ahem.
(This Bold/Eco architecture is today included only in the Architect
version of Delphi/C# enterprise versions).
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa