Grouper Developers Forum

["Bruc Liong" <>]

More tools....

MagicDraw UML (http://www.magicdraw.com/)
works great on windows/linux (we have license)

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
(www.sparxsystems.com.au/products/ea.html)
very nice one

Comments: both on par of Rational or TogetherJ in functionalities, but price
is a lot more attractive

-Bruc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Donnelly 
> [mailto:]
>  
> Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2007 3:00 AM
> To: Signet Dev; Grouper Dev
> Subject: [grouper-dev] UML Tools Survey
> 
> I conducting an informal survey about which UML tools people 
> are using and some indication of suitability.
> 
> I am currently using Jude-Community from Change Vision 
> (http://jude.change-vision.com/jude-web/index.html). On a 
> scale of A to F, I would give it a C+. It's easy to use but 
> does not support round-trip engineering. Also the print 
> capability is rather limited. However, the free version does 
> most of the things I require.
> 
> Other tools I have used:
> 
> Rational Rose from IBM
> link: 
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/rose/index.html
> grade (A-F): A
> comments: Excellent UML tool if you can afford it. The last 
> time I used it was about 5 years ago.
> 
> EclipseUML from Omondo
> link: http://www.omondo.com/
> grade: B- and falling
> comments: Nice integration with Eclipse IDE (I use Eclipse).
> Stopped using it because as new free versions were released, 
> they started removing more and more functionality. Also, 
> EclipseUML was _very_ sensitive to versions of other Eclipse 
> plugins making it difficult to upgrade either. The last time 
> I used it was about 2 years ago.
> 
> TogetherJ from Borland
> link: http://www.borland.com/us/products/together/index.html
> grade: (not enough experience with the product)
> comments: I used this briefly about 4 years ago. It seems to 
> be on par with Rational Rose in functionality and price.
> 
> ArgoUml
> link: http://argouml.tigris.org/
> grade: (see comments)
> comments: I could not get ArgoUML to run reliably on either 
> of 2 computers. Not only did it crash, it required a 
> power-down/reboot to recover (and just to set the record 
> straight, this occurred on both Windows and Linux). Used it 
> about 4 years ago.
> 
> Poseidon from Gentleware
> link: http://www.gentleware.com/
> grade: C+
> comments: This is a commercial product based on ArgoUML but a 
> free version is available. Not as buggy as ArgoUML. 
> Round-trip engineering is supported using comment blocks. 
> This can cause problems if you use other development tools 
> (e.g. Eclipse's Java comment generation tool).
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