Installation

$ maven plugin:download -DgroupId=maven-plugins -DartifactId=maven-dotuml-plugin -Dversion=1.0
 -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/maven/

The installation does not complete here since the dependency is resolved while running the command

maven maven-dotuml-plugin:report 

This command tries to download some of the dependencies and it fails to download UMLGraph version 2.8. UMLGraph can be manually downloaded from http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/umlgraph/. I had it working with the version 2.10. Download, unzip the archive and copy the UMLGraph.jar file into the maven repository directory.

 
$ mkdir -p {$HOME}/.maven/repository/umlgraph/jars
$ cp $UMLGRAPHHOME/UMLGraph.jar {$HOME}/.maven/repository/umlgraph/jars/UMLGraph-2.10

Usage

To generate the UML report, run the following command

$cd $COSMOSRC
$maven maven-dotuml-plugin:report 

You should see a build successful message and all the image files will be placed in $COSMOSRC/target/docs/dotuml.

One of the image file from that directory is shown below

dotuml also generates an index file in $COSMOSRC/target/docs/dotuml/index.html. This file is a big file containing links and the images generated by dotuml. It also links the images with the actual javadoc.

The goals and properties can be customized to your needs.

-- VinubalajiGopal - 06 Oct 2006