Creating Sequence Diagrams from class diagrams

[Vinod Chamoli]

Hello All,
Is there any way to create sequence diagrams from reversed engineered classes in Rational Rose.
Regards,
Vinod

[Nicholas Cheung]

I think this is very difficult, if not impossible, for creating sequence diagram from class diagrams, as they represent different things.
Class diagram is a static modeling, while Sequence diagram is a dynamic modeling.
Class diagrams only contain info about its static state, like attributes and methods, but it contains no info about how the method being called.
On the other hand, Sequence diagrams only contain info about how the objects are interact, which methods are being called in what sequence. However, it does not contain which attribute will be updated, or what info is exchanged inside the method call.
Hence, it may not be possible to obtain either one from another one.
However, if you pass in a whole set of programs, this maybe possible, as the programs specify the flow of the interactions. But it seems that the sequence of OOAD is reversed, becos we usually write codes based on design (UML).
Nick