Any recommendations for tools which build an architecture documentation based on Java code? Had a great chat with @odrotbohm about @moduliths and would like to explore this topic deeper. DSLs are a great way, but unfortunately it's possible to bypass them. /cc @simonbrown
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Not sure what you’re looking for is doable in practice. If the code were generated from a higher-level, machine-readable description, you might be able to reverse-engineer the patterns from their implementation. In practice, the code will always diverge from the “standard” way.
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Replying to @stilkov @OliverLibutzki @simonbrown @odrotbohm
To recognize different implementations of patterns/stereotypes, even ones you haven’t seen before, actually requires intelligence. I highly doubt even ML approaches are useful given the low number of occurrences in most cases

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Replying to @stilkov @OliverLibutzki @odrotbohm
Agreed, that's why the Structurizr component finder has pluggable strategies. There's currently no "out of the box" tool that will successfully translate code to "higher level abstractions" without some manual intervention.
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