News Release from: Lattix
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 February 2006
Software blueprints mission-critical systems
Lattix LDM for Eclipse is the first commercial product to use a dependency structure matrix for a highly compact and scaleable representation of the entire system.
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Lattix has announced the immediate availability of Lattix LDM for Eclipse as part of the new 2.5 version of Lattix LDM. With this new Eclipse plugin, Lattix further extends the developers' capabilities to visualise and maintain the architecture during application development by delivering the power of lightweight dependency models (LDM) to formalise, communicate and control the architecture of Eclipse projects. Lattix has pioneered an approach that uses system interdependencies to create an accurate blueprint of large, mission-critical software systems.
Lattix LDM for Eclipse is the first commercial product to use a dependency structure matrix for a highly compact and scaleable representation of the entire system.
With the lightweight dependency model approach, architects and developers can analyse their architecture in detail, edit the structure to create what-if scenarios and then specify design rules to formalise and communicate that architecture to the entire development organisation.
Lattix LDM for Eclipse provides the capabilities to: map architecture to actual code; test architecture and detect architectural violations while coding; and combine architectural remediation suggested by Lattix LDM with Eclipse refactoring capabilities in order to decouple subsystems, remove unwanted dependencies and rename subsystems so that the code organisation reflects the intended architecture.
'Eclipse customers were demanding the capability to map their application architecture to the actual code', said Neeraj Sangal, President and founder of Lattix.
'They now will have the means to test the architecture, detect violations while coding and prevent architectural erosion'.
Lattix LDM is part of the software architecture management solutions from Lattix, which enable companies to improve and maintain quality, enhance testability, lower costs through more effective development and manage risks by understanding the impact of proposed changes.
The new LDM approach offers distinct advantages over current methods.
The matrix representation leverages the system hierarchy to aggregate dependencies and provide a precise big picture view.
The LDM can be automatically synchronised with every build to identify changes and architectural violations.
Developers can focus on their part of the system while maintaining the big picture.
The power of the hierarchy and the compact matrix representation enables the LDM to scale from hundreds to tens of thousands of classes.
The Lattix LDM approach has been successfully applied to many large commercial systems in a various industries, including financial services and telecommunications.
Lattix LDM automatically extracts dependencies and builds the LDM within seconds, so it is easy to deploy at any time in the software lifecycle.
Architectural patterns are easy to discover and enforce in the dependency structure matrix.
Lattix LDM for Eclipse and Lattix LDM V2.5 are immediately available for Java and C/C++, with prices starting at US $995 per developer licence.
A free Community Edition is also available.
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