Automated API specification generation

Hi All,

This is FYI.
To accelerate the API standardization process we can use some tools.
As you know BONDI uses widl format (WebIDL + doxygen).
http://bondi.omtp.org/1.0/apis/BONDI_Interface_Patterns_v1.0.html#dox

It has its problems, but it helped us a lot.
We could discuss first the patterns and document format, e.g. XML-based.
This is planned already for BONDI.

In ACCESS I prepared a tool that helped me ensure some quality aspect of the BONDI specs.
It is known as API database approach, since one of the intermediate format is a database that enables SQL queries to the spec.
The output is e.g. here:
http://bondi01.obe.access-company.com/1_0_3309_41/

The tool enables me to prepare specification checkers, one of them is here:
http://bondi01.obe.access-company.com/1_0_3309_41/checker_versions.html
(it checks whether version of the widl file was specified correctly)

Another nice aspect are the statistics:
http://bondi01.obe.access-company.com/1_0_3309_41/stats.html

I assume a tool, format, etc.  could help the group concentrate on the real problems and the syntactical issue could be spotted more easily.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Marcin

Marcin Hanclik
ACCESS Systems Germany GmbH
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