free UML sequence diagram reverse engineering eclipse plugin working out of the box - does such a thing exist?
I tried (though not very comprehensively) numerous solutions including ModelGoon (only class and interaction diagrams available), ObjectAid (class diagram only), eUML free edition (quits with an ominous "license not found" error on first use), MoDisco (with the only option on the menu being "browse corresponding model element"). And also some standalone tools - ArgoUML and BOUML either dont provide this feature or at least i was not able to find it. Jsonde started only after i fixed a msvcr71.dll-error and was then unable to connect to the VM for reasons unknown...Java Call Tracer is just a bunch of files with pages of options to apply to the JVM directly and there is no executable...
I also read following posts on the topic : featuring commercial options, too general (not seq diagrams), also too general, featuring standalone commercial solutions
By working out of the box i mean - the default installation is not broken and there is an option like "generate sequence diagram" or similar resulting in a (modifiable would be great) sequence diagram.
I am getting an impression, that there is simply no such thing (yet?) as a free UML sequence diagram reverse engineering eclipse plug-in working out of the box.
Please prove me wrong. Thank you
Answer
The other day, I discovered a tool from the University of Victoria called Diver: Dynamic Interactive Views For Reverse Engineering. You can either find a method and create a static sequence diagram starting with that method or you can run an application in a trace mode to capture the sequence diagram for a particular execution of an application.