From http://www.jafer.org:
The JAFER Project (Java Access For Electronic Resources) aims to produce an easy to use, visual toolkit,
which will allow users to build portals and information sources without having to deal with the
technical intricacies of Z39.50.
Here some Unified Modelling Language (UML)TM reverse-engineering, parsings, and models of the JAFER Toolkit - including some debugging sequences - are presented
as folders of _large_ UML images in a new window. Some of the images
are specific to the Meta Access Management System (MAMS) installation. I am no longer working with this, so I have no
incentive to sort the diagrams any further. I provide them as is in the hope they will be
of interest to somebody working with JAFER.
Copyright in parsed documents remains with the JAFER team.
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WARNING:
The JAFER toolkit is certainly an excellent tool, however
the distribution is not well organised, and the "current" version
I downloaded in late 2004 contained a couple of bugs with very
hard-to-trace side-effects, as you can see from the debugging sequences !
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In cases like this the Unified Modelling Language (UML)TM is very useful in tracing problems.
Notice how I work with huge diagrams with liberal combination
of notes containing implementation diagnostics and software components
(many reverse-engineered) to debug such tricky stuff.
This is quite comfortable when working within a tool like MagicDraw UMLTM,
although it is not intended that such diagrams be exported as monster images.
(I performed this work as Unified Modelling Language (UML)TM modeller of the architecture of the Meta Access Management System (MAMS), and to assess it
as a candidate component for a federated search client.)
