PlantUML for LHC physics. VINCIA collaboration

Question

Dear authors of PlantUML,

I would like to first congratulate you for this excellent tool.

I am a high-energy physics researcher at CEA-Saclay, Paris. I belong to the VINCIA collaboration (http://vincia.hepforge.org). We develop a software for the analysis of LHC data (CERN, Geneva).

For our research, we are very interested in your work. We want to base our documentation for authors in UML activity diagrams, arguably the highest level view of the code. These would be automatically generated from special comments within the code (maybe the analogy with Doxygen is useful here).
You can see a mockup here:
https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/view/421c-4b1c-4faa337d-9d5f-23c40a7e1d42
(press "Show Hotspot" to display and activate the green links among diagrams)

For this purpose, we are already in close contact with members at LaQuSo, a Laboratory for Quality Sofware in The Netherlands
http://www.laquso.com
They are associated with a department at the University of Eindhoven.

I came across PlantUML recently (as well as UMLet, another nice tool). Your tool provides a great share of the functionality that we are looking for. Other elements are missing (C++ code and comments parsing; providing hyperlinks in the diagrams to navigate/browse among them...).
Therefore, I would like to know in the first place if you are interested in collaboration / further developments.

Please, let me know if you are available to talk. I'm looking foward to hearing from you.
Best regards,

Juan J. Lopez-Villarejo
Researcher   -   CEA-Saclay, Paris
Phone: +33169086895

Answer 1

Hello,

First, glad that PlantUML can help you : was it used for Higgs boson search ? :-)

About C++ comment parsing, I am not sure of what you are looking for, but since C++ comment are the same as Java, PlantUML code in C++ comments should work out of the box.

About hyperlink, you can find some information here : http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/incubation.html

Yes, we are interested in collaboration : many features comes from users idea's and suggestion!

You can either propose what you are expecting here, or send a mail to plantuml@gmail.com

Regards,

Arnaud