sampa : colin’s blog

Darren Davison’s Beandoc tool for getting a better view of a Spring application context is way cool!:
http://www.davison.uk.net/beandoc/
This is definitely worth including with Spring or as a related project.

Here’s his spring-developer mail list comment about it:

I’ve done a bit of work on a tool to document and graph context files. It
still needs some work in a few areas but it’s starting to show promise I
think.

Although highly configurable in terms of output, the defaults are pretty
sane and were used to generate docs from JPetStore’s config. They can be
seen at http://www.davison.uk.net/beandoc/ for a short while. All of the
HTML and graphs were generated by simply calling the main class and
supplying the input files and an output location as command line args.

The only changes made to the input files was to move some of the XML
comments into tags. Output of

Stuff still to do: finish XSLT templates, add an ANT task, write docs, etc.
etc.

Is there any interest from others in using this and seeing it added as a
subproject (like RCP or Spring-IDE)?