Do you know of some UML diagramming software?

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g3n · Post by **g3n** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:43 pm

I need to find a UML diagramming software for my gentoo to start developing some new project, i use to have MagicDraw but the license expired. What do you recommend?
is there anyone in the portage?
I need to do use case, sequence, class and state diagrams.

Any comments about the programs would be appreciated

lbrtuk · Post by **lbrtuk** » Wed May 19, 2004 6:59 pm

There's dia, a simple (ish) gtk app, and there's also umbrello, which comes with kde 3.2 in kdesdk. I think you can also get it standalone for kde 3.1.

I think also an app called kivio (in koffice) can do it too, but it's not as good.

searcher · Post by **searcher** » Wed May 19, 2004 7:02 pm

If you install eclipse you can install an additional plugin that will give it UML capabilities. Check out eclipse.org

~searcher

g3n · Post by **g3n** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:01 pm

searcher wrote:If you install eclipse you can install an additional plugin that will give it UML capabilities. Check out eclipse.org

~searcher

What do i need to install of eclipse? there are about 5 packages in the portage, what do i patch?

derelm · Post by **derelm** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:55 pm

if you use kde as your desktop, be sure to emerge kdesdk. it comes with "umbrello" the kde uml-tool!

g3n · Post by **g3n** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:28 pm

I emerged umbrello, but it isnt as intuitive as the others UML softwares i knew, is there a standard in the format of the output files? do you really suggest umbrello for a big project?

btw, whats the difference with umbrello and kdesdk? whats in there?

LAsk · Post by **LAsk** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:47 pm

ArgoUML is another one.

derelm · Post by **derelm** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:05 pm

g3n wrote: btw, whats the difference with umbrello and kdesdk? whats in there?

umbrello in kdesdk is at version 1.2.2 while the version you emerged is at version 1.1.1
but i guess it didn't change to much

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Wed May 19, 2004 10:20 pm

LAsk wrote:ArgoUML is another one.

ArgoUML works pretty good. There is also poseidon which is based on ArgoUML. I used it for my last project using Java Webstart.

g3n · Post by **g3n** » Thu May 20, 2004 4:40 pm

HomerSimpson wrote:
LAsk wrote:ArgoUML is another one.
ArgoUML works pretty good. There is also poseidon which is based on ArgoUML. I used it for my last project using Java Webstart.

Wow, argo is really good, i havent heard from it but is just like MagicDraw but for free. But theres the problem that my project is in C++ (not that argo can do it right) but i do you have any experience with this? anyone?

HomerSimpson · Post by **HomerSimpson** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:24 pm

I used Poseidon (based on ArgoUML) for my last C/C++ embedded project. I used static structure diagrams and state diagrams. It was a small project but I don't like to work on software like that without some design docs ahead of time. I am getting old and need help. Writing it down in UML helps me a lot.

g3n · Post by **g3n** » Fri May 21, 2004 10:44 pm

although i think the Reverse Engineer in ArgoUML is buggy, and i m about to install poseidon