Lattix join Eclipse.org
Lattix LDM is a very cool tool for visualising, analysing and constraining dependencies in Java code (check out an online demo). Interestingly, it generates Design Structure Matrix based models to represent (and manipulate) dependencies.
Standalone analysis tools like these are great (I like Headway Structure 101 too) but Lattix piqued my interest when I heard they are joining Eclipse.org. Capabilities like this built into an Eclipse would be fantastic but I’d be interested to find out how deep the integration will go – will they change from analysing bytecode and build on the JDT core Java Model instead? If they did, then we’d be able to analyse and refactor at the same time. Hmmm.
Alas, it’s worth remebering that tools like this cannot easily spot dynamic dependencies introduced by use of the Reflection API and IOC containers, both powerful and very popular facilities used in many modern enterprise projects…
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