DocFlex/Together 1.1.8

DocFlex/Together is a revolutionary documentation creator for Borland Together based on DocFlex Technology.
Created under leadership of the former author of the template-driven DocGen module in Together (which was developed during 1998-2000 yet in TogetherSoft Corp.), this new tool represents a major breakthrough and next logical step over what Together DocGen was and still is now.
The software includes:
- The DocFlex Template Designer
- The documentation generator (which interprets the templates)
- The two DSM (Data Source Model) drivers based on RWI and UIBuilder interfaces (both provided by Together OpenAPI).
The DSM drivers connect to Together models and present the information from them in the form similar to XML documents, which can be further processed by DocFlex generator using templates. The result is the best quality printable or hypertext framed documentation for projects and models designed in Together.
The whole packages is prepared as a normal Together component and can be invoked both from the Together IDE and from the command line in a batch mode. The template designer can also be started alone as a separate Java application without launching the whole Together IDE.
Main features:
- Represents Together models in the form similar to XML documents and allows to process information from them basing on universal concepts of XML and approaches developed around it (such as XPath).
- Provides advanced data querying and sorting capabilities comparable with those of XSL Transformations (and possibly even beyond).
- The high quality graphic Template Designer allows to visually design the sophisticated formatting of the generated documentation basing on abstract layout concepts such as flow of text, paragraphs, tables and lists and any combinations of them.
- Since all such layouts in one or another form are supported by any modern output format (such as HTML, RTF, PDF, XSL-FO and so on), the formatting specified in the DocFlex template can be rendered with the high precision in any of those formats. (Currently, the supported output formats include HTML and RTF. Other formats are planned in next versions, XSL-FO in the first place).
- The TXT output is supported as well and may be used for non-documentation tasks to employ sophisticated data query and processing capabilities presented in this technology (for instance, using templates and TXT output, you can easily program dumping the data from Together models into various XML files).
- DocFlex templates are full-blown programs. What is not visualized by the Template Designer in the form of template components can be specified in component properties using FlexQuery-expressions.
- FlexQuery-expressions are small scripts with the Java-based syntax, which are widely used in DocFlex templates to specify all kinds of dynamically computed settings (such as dynamic properties of template components, filter conditions and so on).
- About 150 built-in general utility functions are available now within the expressions, plus 26 function specific for Together, which represent some functionality provided by Together OpenAPI.
- A special utility function callForName() allows to invoke a method of any custom-written external Java-class (implementing a special interface from the DocFlex API).
- Within FlexQuery-expressions, it is possible to access the template parameters as well as various generator variables organized in the form of hierarchy of objects and properties of the Generator Object Model (similar to Document Object Model in Dynamic HTML).
- The basic set of templates provided with DocFlex/Together (both editions) allows to generate all kinds of documentation
- Provides comprehensive support for launching the documentation generator from the Together command line.