Re: Design in UML

["Gregory Krohne" <Gregory@GregoryKrohne.com>]

Apparently, I used the wrong "from" address when I sent this to the group
the first time, and the message was unceremoniously dropped.

Greg Krohne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Krohne" <gkrohne@acm.org>
To: <ajug-members@ajug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Design in UML


> Chris,
> Well, UML does seem to be the new diagramming standard. I think that's
> because it's public domain: all of the booch-o-grams and so forth before
> this were actually copyrighted by the authors. To make a tool using those
> diagrams, you had to license the rights.
> That means, you can conceivably make a free or open source UML tool, so of
> course there are some. The one I'm using now is called Poseidon for UML,
by
> Gentle Ware, based on the open source ArgoUML project.
> http://www.gentleware.com/
> http://www.argouml.org/
> The "Community Edition" is free, with more features for more money. And
> since Poseidon is written in Java, it runs on Linux just as well as on
> Windows or anything else. Other options (including free ones) can be found
> in the Google directory, of course:
>
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Methodologies/Modeling
> _Languages/Unified_Modeling_Language/Tools/?il=1
>
> The basics of UML are very easy to learn, especially if you know some
other
> methodology already. And since UML is copyright-free, most new books seem
to
> use it for diagramming. So, it may be worth your time to adopt one of
these
> tools for your development.
>
> Greg
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Fowler" <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
> To: <ajug-members@ajug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:00 PM
> Subject: Design
>
>
> >
> > As many of you know I have requested the assistance of a Java
> > programmer to help me on an upcoming project.  Thanks to this group
> > I've got an big response.  I'm looking at a tool to help design this
> > project.  I'm used to using a PDR format or a flowchart but have seen
> > some UML stuff.  Is this the new rave on program design?   Are there
> > any free/cheap UML programs that run under Linux out there I can use?
> > I'm used to useing paper and Visio to design my programs.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
>