Structure101

Understanding a very large codebase

I have 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, … Read MoreRead More

Structure101 User Group Sponsorship

@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 … Read MoreRead More

The Structure101 Project Model

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 … Read MoreRead More

Making JUnit 4.8.2 tangle free – a possible solution

The purpose of this exercise was to use Restructure101 to solve tangles in JUnit version 4.8.2. … Read More

Structure101 New Feature: Class Name-map

The name-map is a feature that most users will not require. But, there are certain use cases where its use can be invaluable. For example: If you have a large volume of class to class transformations, you may notice the … Read More

Maven and Sonar Plugins for Structure101

With the recent v3.4 release of Structure101, we have included plugins for Maven and Sonar. The Maven plugin makes it really easy to include checks for complexity and architecture violations as part of your build, and report or break the … Read More

Mapping Architecture Diagrams to Code – the “most specific pattern” rule

Architecture Diagrams in Structure101 are mapped to the physical code by patterns associated with each cell in the diagram. This enables the visual specification of rules that can then be applied to a specific version of your code so that … Read More

Identifying transitive closures with Structure101

Here an interesting use case. I am currently working on a reuse project. We have a large legacy Java application that we are trying to farm for implementations of some high level functions in a new application. To do this … Read More

Graphviz on steroids

We just released our new generic jobbie, Structure101g. If you already know Structure101 for Java or Structure101 for C/C++, you probably already have a good idea of what Structure101g might be. This is for those (and there are many, oh … Read More

Structure101 Takes Home Jolt Productivity Award

Just got back from SD West and unpacked our Jolt Productivity Award. Huge credit and thanks to all the users that provided the stream of feature suggestions that has contributed to making Structure101 such a great product. And congratulations to … Read More