how to visualize a lot of entities in diagram?

Question

I am using ObjectAid UML as eclipse plugin, then I generate entities diagram from my project, there are a lot of relationships which is nested between each other and it looks like a mess. I need a good solution to visualize about 60~ entities in my project via diagram. Any suggestions? Also I found JPA Entities Editor, but it works only with specific project's type - JPA project. So it doesnt fit. Thanks, in advance (:

Answer 1

• You could shorten the class blocks by showing only connections and any without attributes in blocks.
• You could lower the number of connections by showing the generalization by ":" notation only, without arrows. (child:parent in the name of block)
• You could hide dependencies

• you can lower the number of connections by moving the named ends inside the class-owners (attributes in block instead of association)

• But the only serious way is to make a component diagram, where components are the groups of close classes and later make class diagrams for each component separately.