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
Deconstructing Software
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 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