Api diagrams from source

ApiViz ia another magical tool which can be helpful in learning about the code

Lets see how it works

Download GraphViz

http://www.graphviz.org/Download..php

Set the environment variable

GRAPHVIZ_HOME=C:\Program Files\Graphviz 2.28\bin

ApiViz

http://code.google.com/p/apiviz/#Prerequisites

We can use maven to use it quickly

 

Edit maven pom.xml

 

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.9</version>

<configuration>
         <doclet>org.jboss.apiviz.APIviz</doclet>
         <docletArtifact>
           <groupId>org.jboss.apiviz</groupId>
           <artifactId>apiviz</artifactId>
           <version>1.3.2.GA</version>
         </docletArtifact>
         <useStandardDocletOptions>true</useStandardDocletOptions>
         <charset>UTF-8</charset>
         <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
         <docencoding>UTF-8</docencoding>
         <breakiterator>true</breakiterator>
         <version>true</version>
         <author>true</author>
         <keywords>true</keywords>
         <additionalparam>
           -sourceclasspath ${project.build.outputDirectory}
         </additionalparam>
       </configuration>

 

        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

 

Lets start magic

 

mvn compile javadoc:javadoc