If you install graphviz on your computer, dbdoclet creates class diagrams of every class for you. The class diagrams show the inheritance path and all implemented interfaces of the class.
The creation of the class diagrams is controlled by two properties.
The first show.inheritancePath controls wether a
diagram should be used at all. If this property is set to true (this is
the default!) a textual representation of the class and its superclasses
is created. Instead of this textual representation you can tell dbdoclet
to create the class diagrams as UML diagrams. Therefore you have to set
the property program.dot.cmd to a value like
"/usr/bin/dot" -T${type} -o${out} ${file}. The property
specifies the command line for the dot tool from the graphviz package. If
the path to the dot executable contains spaces, you must protect the path
with double quotes. dbdoclet will now use the specified dot command line
to create the class diagrams.
You can control the formats of created images with the property
imagedata.formats,e.g.
imagedata.formats=png,jpg. This creates a mediaobject
tag with two nested imageobject/imagedata tags, one for png and the other
one for jpg. Additionally dbdoclet will use dot to
create the class diagrams as png and jpg files. You must keep care not to
use formats which dot doesn't support! I use
imagedata.formats=png,jpg for HTML and PDF and
imagedata.formats=eps for Postscript output. But this
can depend on the transformation tools you are using.
