Merging Structure101 Studio Action Lists

The action lists created in Structure101 Studio are saved in the project .hsp file. Currently there is no ‘Merge Action List’ feature in Studio. But the lists can be merged by editing the .hsp XML file. To avoid overwriting your … Read More

Structure101 Workspace IntelliJ IDEA and Gradle

The IDEA gradle import creates module compile output paths that are different to the gradle build output paths. Structure101 Workspace uses the IDEA module compile output paths to find the bytecode. So, running a gradle build will not propagate changes to … Read More

Monolith to Modular, Part 4 – Sizing and Estimating Scope

Module extractions with many tens or hundreds of violations to resolve will benefit from preparatory planning and estimation. This is the fourth post in a series that will explore the challenges of migrating a monolithic code base to a modular … Read MoreRead More

Monolith to Modular, Part 3 – Managing Violations

Dependencies that violate your target module structure need to be resolved before code can be extracted from the monolith into the new module. This is the third post in a series that will explore the challenges of migrating a monolithic … Read More

Monolith to Modular, Part 2 – The Extract Module Use Case

The basic use case of the monolith to modular strategy is “extract a new module from a monolithic code base” This is the second post in a series that will explore the challenges of migrating a monolithic code base to … Read More

Migrating from Monolith to Modular – Part 1

This is the first post in a series that will explore the challenges of migrating a monolithic code base to a modular architecture Series links: Post 1 – Migrating from Monolith to Modular (this post) Post 2 – Monolith to … Read More

Introducing Structure101 Workspace

Our new IDE-resident product Structure101 Workspace includes some of the visualization and specification concepts from Structure101 Studio, but in a simpler and entirely new combination that is specifically designed for programmers. The visualization is similar to the Studio LSM – in … Read More

Java User Group Presentations on Bridging the Divide between Architecture and Code

Structure101 co-founder, Chris Chedgey, will be delivering his latest talk – ‘Bridging the Divide between Architecture and Code’ at a number of Java User Group events across Europe and North America in the coming months. We’ll be adding new dates … Read More

Why cycles explode complexity

Software developers and architects would instinctively avoid cyclic dependencies given the choice – we’d never consciously create an architecture which was a ball of mud. For instance we’d be more inclined to aim for something like this … rather than … Read More

Why does the violation count change when I collapse a cell on a Structure101 Architecture Diagram?

This will happen when there is one or more violations contained within the scope of the cell you are collapsing. For example you might have this situation: And the violations count is show as 3(4) in the Diagrams list: (i.e. … Read More