Day Off.

I've taken a day off work to handle some problems that are not related to work, (i.e. paying bills etc nothing real exciting). But it has given me an opportunity to really dig into the UML design work I'm doing.

Presently I'm working on the UML Class Diagram (or Static Structure) for the Server. I’ve hit a couple of snags but I seem to be working through them. Google is invaluable at this stage because I’m raiding other people designs and designs to see how they’ve implemented their ideas.

One slight downside has been the Export Function for VB.NET. Although it’s done a great job in setting up the Operations and Attributes, it doesn’t create VB Class properties. These will have to be hand coded in at a later time.

The upshot of all this is, I’m still going to have to put in more code than I originally thought, but it still cuts down on the amount work I have to do (Which is always a good thing).

Also I’ve see a couple of areas where the design can be improved and at this stage it’s easy to rip these things up and start again.

The work on the Client Functional Design is complete. I have to now delve deeper in and decide about basic screen shots etc. The JBuilder tutorials, I’m running through seem to progress quite well, but I’ve still got to gain confidence with both Java and JBuilder itself.

No progress with the map designer. I’m going to implement the new classes generated by the latest design before I can progress with the coding. But I’m still looking into these grid controls.