I’ve been meaning to do some scalability tests on Structure101 for some time now but something always seems to get in the way. Step in the end of the last working day before Christmas.
Just fire some code at it, and let’s see what happens!
I have a new iMac, 2.7 GHz i5 with 12 GB of Ram running Lion, I love it! But if you’ve got a big codebase, yours is certainly bigger and better.
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Headway founder, Chris Chedgey, will be presenting “Modularizing an existing code-base” at the following Java User Group Events in the first quarter of 2012:
Come along and learn more about the importance and benefits of managing software architecture.
As always, there will be the opportunity to take home free Structure101 and Restructure101 licenses.
If you are a JUG leader and would like Chris to present at one of your meetings, just contact us.
Best wishes for the holidays to all.
From all the Structure101 guys.
Structure101 Build (for Java, .Net and more) can be invoked in Hudson/Jenkins via an Ant, Maven or Execute Shell Script build step. In this post I will show example use cases of how to use each build step, and how to make a Hudson/Jenkins build unstable if any architecture violation is found. Thanks to Rochelle Raccah at eBay for helping me figure this out. Continue Reading
@chedgey met up with a couple of JUG leaders at the recent Java One, and between them they bashed out our sponsorship of Java User Groups worldwide.
We would be delighted to also extend our offer to the .NET User Group (DNUG) community. If you are interested all you need to do is contact us. Details of our sponsorship are after the fold:
Checking architecture conformance or complexity thresholds at build time is easy to set up with the Structure101 Maven Plugin – this is a step-by-step guide, discussing some options along the way.
So you just opened a Repository project, edited the Architecture diagrams, only to discover that there is no way to save your edits! What is going on here?!
Our project model is somewhat convoluted – there is a sort of logic behind it, but it can be a nightmare if you dare to deviate from how we want you to use it!
The intended usage is that you maintain both a “Local” project, and an associated “Repository” project. (You can literally “associate” the Local project with the Repository when you publish for the first time). Continue Reading
If architectural drift is addressed before monolithic code tangles have formed, the higher-level components can be disentangled by relatively low cost/risk relocation of classes between components. Otherwise more invasive class-level surgery is needed – this is possible with Restructure101, but this tutorial focuses on the simpler situation.
Need to refactor your software architecture?
Today we are very pleased to announce the general availability of Restructure101 version 1.0 for Java and .NET. Restructure101 lets software developers refactor their software architecture to remove costly dependency tangles and structural complexity.
We developed an interactive visual model called the Levelized Structure Map (LSM) which was specifically designed to allow software architects delve into structural problems and to explore solutions by directly manipulating the model in a sandbox environment. Continue Reading