XALDoc main objective is to generate, automatically, always up-to-date documentation related to a software product during the whole software development process. 

The demo is related to a subset of Openbravo source code  (see srcAD directory): business logic and GUI classes. 

XAL framework development never stops. The main objective is to solve problems related to IT industry software development process: time delayed software deployment, higher-than-expected production costs.

Software development  has to keep up with the following rules:

• definition of clear rules of behavior in the development metodology
• clear business logic which can be identifiable and understandable by all players (customers, analysts, developers)
• object oriented programming
• up-to-date documentation

Costs and time constraints due to market are enimies of these rules: decide hurried today, no business tomorrow. 

Stop talking, do it.  XAL tries to translate these rules into tools. These tools are tightly integrated into software devolopment cycle, from requirements analysis to development: 

• XAL: is an innovative language based on timed automata (one model understandable by all actors)
• XALServer: is a run environment for XAL applications (scalability and system integration)
• XALDesign: is a graphical IDE for XAL application devolopment (business logic: from design to development)
• XALDoc: is a code refactoring and documentation (always up-to-date) management system (business logic: analysis and model checking phases)

In download section you can get the source files for  XAL Designer Tool. Through it you can draw the automaton on which a XAL application is based. In order to compile the source files you will need the last versions of Java JDK (go to the website) and of the ANT tool (go to the website). In the following, a small tutorial about how to install and use the XAL Designer Tool.