RE: Open UML tools?

["Allan Marks" <allanmarks@msn.com>]

I've worked on a project that used the Poseidon commercial adaptation of
ArgoUML.  The graphs it generated were relatively good, but it seemed to
really bog down as we threw more classes into a large project.
www.gentleware.com

I've also been playing with Omondo's EclipseUML tool, which is based on the
Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) and integrates very nicely with Eclipse
2.1 (and also with WebSphere Studio).  The free version has quite an array
of advanced features (source code generation, refactoring, etc.), has a well
thought out interface, and my experience has been that it does a very good
job of "two-way" translation (i.e code changes to UML / UML changes to
code). Haven't used this on an extensive project yet, but it seems to be
more stable than Poseidon.  www.eclipseuml.com

There is also an Enterprise version of EclipseUML, which apparently has team
development / CVS capabilities and design pattern support built-in.

Allan



-----Original Message-----
From: John Wells [mailto:jb@sourceillustrated.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:13 AM
To: ajug-members@www.ajug.org
Subject: Open UML tools?


I'm aware of a number of open source UML modeling tools available
(argouml, umbrello, etc).

While I'd love to hear of any others AJUG members are aware of, more
importantly, I'd like to hear what folks have used successfully to
design/model a project for their company and what problems/drawbacks you
encountered in that experience.

Thanks very much for the input!

John