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Quick Class Hierarchy View Using UML

March 17th, 2009 by Konstantin Bulenkov

IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.1 will support Show Class Hierarchy action that displays class hierarchy of a selected type. Just place the caret at any type in the code editor and press Ctrl+Alt+U.

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11 Responses to “Quick Class Hierarchy View Using UML”

  1. tieTYT Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    There might be a missing key here… This only works for me when i press shift+ctrl+alt+u.

  2. Stephan Anft Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    I think there is missing more than just a key … because shift+ctrl+alt+u is not the function mentioned. The “show class hierarchy” action displays the UML diagram as a popup and not in a new editor tab as shift+ctrl+alt+u is doing.

    Is this function implemented in IDEA 8.1?

    Regards,
    Stephan

  3. Konstantin Bulenkov Says:
    March 18th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Sorry, it was a misprint. Actually, this feature will be in 8.1.1 and it exists for a long time in Maia’s EAPs.

  4. Ben Says:
    July 4th, 2009 at 2:20 am

    Cool, are you going to put this in Resharper too?

  5. Thomas Eilermann Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 3:34 am

    Is it possible to use the uml feature of intelli-j for flex development, too?

  6. Konstantin Bulenkov Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 6:34 am

    Thomas, multi-language UML support is coming. I believe it will be in Maia very soon. For Flex, PHP, JavaScript and maybe for other languages

  7. Stefan Endrullis Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am

    I just tested the new feature with the latest EAP release of Intellij. It’s quite useful since you can see the whole class hierarchy at a glance. But I’m wondering why the popup takes 1 second to appear after pressing ctrl+alt+U. Is that normal?

    @Scala users: It seems that the feature also works for Scala (at least a bit). The Scala classes are already drawn but the arrows between the classes are missing.

  8. Konstantin Bulenkov Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

    It’s time necessary to build UI and relationships. I’ll do my best to improve performance in next EAPs.

  9. Ted Says:
    September 12th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

    Is it possible to show the interaction between cooperating classes ?

  10. Dragisa Krsmanovic Says:
    October 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    How is this better than Code Navigator http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=3202 ?

  11. Sean Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 12:56 am

    I’m also wondering… ;)

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