Sequence Diagram Reverse Engineering

Question

I\'m looking for a tool that will reverse engineer Java into a sequence diagram BUT also provides the ability to filter out calls to certain libraries.

For example,

Answer 1

Enterprise architect from Sparx claims to be able to reverse engineer java code including generating sequence diagrams - see this section of the user guide

It looks like it can record a debugging session and then you generate the sequence diagram from that

I've not tried it (though have used EA as a modelling tool) so ymmv!

There is a free 30day evaluation download available

Answer 2

JIVE (www.cse.buffalo.edu/jive) will construct a sequence diagram from the execution of a Java program. It has an Exclusion Filter capability will allow you to exclude objects belonging to designated classes or packages. JIVE can draw sequence diagrams for multi-threaded Java program execution. It also has the ability compact large diagrams in both the horizontal and vertical dimension, under user guidance.

Answer 3

I have a tool that meets your requirements exactly. Check it out

http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacalltracer/

In addition to being a reverse engineering tool for java it is also very lightweight. You can control the what you want to record from your java program.

Answer 4

I believe the perfect tool to solve your problem is Diver: Dynamic Interactive Views For Reverse Engineering. It provides both static and dynamic sequence diagrams and looks to solve all your requirements from your question.

It is a plugin for Eclipse and lets you:

• Easily trace your Java programs
• Visualize your program’s runtime functionality
• Filter your traces to make them more compact
• Filter your IDE based on what occurs at runtime
• See what code ran in your source code editors

It's on Github and there is also a project web site

Full Disclosure: I am the current project lead for Diver

Answer 5

JTracert is now discontinued. In place, they recommend http://www.jsonde.com/

Answer 6

Take a look at http://www.maintainj.com

It don't know, whether it can filter library calls, but it has a reasonable graphical front end and seems to trace even very large applications.