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UML Modelling Tool

  • 12-12-2005 12:22PM
    #1
    Splendid
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    Someday i'll do more than just ask for help, but not today.

    Can anyone recommend a good open source UML modelling tool?

    Thank you.


Comments

  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    My recommendation: Poseidon For UML (comunity edition) or ArgoUML.

    Others/Longer list:
    http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byPlatform.html


  • #3
    projectmayhem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    this may seem a stupid question, but i'll ask anyway...

    is UML important? i know it tends to be part of getting a programming job (as in, you do a sample bit of code and map it via UML to show your leet skillz and all), but is it a vital part of programming life? personally, if someone showed me a UML diagram and told me to make a program from it i'd get fairly lost fairly quickly...

    (note: i do comp sci, second year... we do UML and it seems a waste of a class to do in an entire year, hence question)


  • #4
    Karoma
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    It's a standardised way of visualising how a project fits together,and how parts should work... Colleges go overboard and are far too specific IMHO.

    I view it as a sketch - but because it's standardised, and documented if i show it to someone else who is familiar with UML - they can dig it. dig it?

    So, in short: Yeah. It's important. And, more important: It can work. :D


  • #5
    djmarkus
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    We use rational rose in college, as a piece of software i think its a buggy piece of crap tho.


  • #6
    projectmayhem
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    that's what we use in college. pile of ****e. i've used some open source stuff, much better. after all, all it has to do is draw lines, stick-men, arrows and boxes


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  • #7
    CerebralCortex
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    Would I be correct in recommending violet by Cay Horstmann?


  • #8
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    "Roses are rational, violets are GNU." *groan*
    That's actually not 'alf bad:)I don't like UML tools generating code anyway.

    And, agreed, Rational Rose is overprice, bloated bugware.

    *..continues playing with Violet.. *


  • #9
    leesong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭leesong


    UML Tools I have used and think are OK:

    - umbrello (KDE/Linux http://uml.sourceforge.net/index.php)
    - argoUML
    - UMLET (java, http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~auer/umlet/) - basic with a quirky I/F but v fast


  • #10
    voxpop
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    Used Dia - http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ - isnt too bad, but not super


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