Static analysis

The performance and usability of static analysis has improved significantly. The user interfaces for static analysis, including architectural discovery, model analysis, and Java code review, are now unified into the new static analysis configuration window that you can open by clicking Run > Analysis.

This consolidation means that you can run all your static analysis for models, application architecture and code from one interface, and your analysis configurations can include elements from more than one type of analysis. For example, you can now run one analysis to to perform both a Java code review that can find broken coding rules and an architectural discovery that can find antipatterns in the code..

Visualization and creation of development artifacts in UML notational diagrams

Several enhancements are available in visual code development using UML diagrams:

• You can integrate system artifacts into your UML diagram. Artifacts represent physical implementation units, such as executable files, libraries, software components, documents, and databases.
• You can create enumerations in class diagrams in Java and C++ visual representations.
• The Java code modeling capability now supports J2SE 5 language features. Improved integration of developer focused tools in the diagramming environment through the context menus.
• You can also visualize and edit WSDL and XSD documents using UML notation.