Class Diagram Preferences

In this section, you will understand how to configure the class diagrams through the Eclipse preferences.
The UML preferences can be selected from the menu bar:  Window > Preferences > UML > Class Diagram.
The class diagram preferences are set in the UML preferences sub menu.

• Association
• Class
• Colors
• Dependency
• Inheritance
• Package

• From the Source area, the format after code insertion could be selected
• Format after code insertion
• From the Wire Automation area, the java code reverse engineering can be customize in order to show:
• Association
• Inheritance
• Dependency
• From Show/Hide Compartment, the different UML compartment can be shown or not depending on selecting:
• Attribute Compartment
• Operation Compartment
• Literal Compartment
• From Reverse area, the reverse engineering option can be customize:
• Ask for classifier selection when reversing a package
• Show options dialog for each diagram navigation
• Detect attribute properties
• From the scope options on class selection area, can be defined the range of the reverse engineering:
• Scope
• Level (reverse any element at 1 level for example. Please don't select over 3 for large projects in order to avoid to reverse few thousand elements)
• From the Dynamic file creation area, can be defined the class diagram save option in the package explorer
• Do not create diagram file before saving action