It's funny to see all this UML stuff in the past week, mostly because I just *happened* to get (re)interested in UML at the beginning of the week, then suddenly I see Dough Hughes' entry on the subject, and suddenly it's everywhere! Anyway, I posted this at your blog, Jared, but thought I'd copy it here for the list's sake. :)
I just downloaded and tried out a bunch of UML tools this week (the coincidence with all this UML talk going on lately is eerie!) and have come to settle on Visual Paradigm for UML as my so-far favorite. You can grab the Community Edition at http://www.visual-paradigm.com/vpuml.php and they also have a number of commercial editions geared at a range of development levels. My criteria for choosing? 1) It must run on OS X, this basically means a Java app, 2) It had to have acceptable performance, and 3) It had to be reasonably bloat-free. VPUML is, I believe, a Cocoa based Java app, which means it performs better than, say, MagicDraw or ArgoUML by a noticeable amount, but it's still a bit sluggish. Still, it works well enough to be useful. There are a bunch of functions in it that I don't, and possibly never will, use, but it has good diagram tools, and was pretty easy to jump in and get started right away. Visual Paradigm also has something called SDE, which is a suite of CASE tools that integrate with several IDE's, including Eclipse. But it requires JDK 1.5, so us poor OS X users have to wait for Tiger before we can use it. (Note: I haven't really tried OmondoUML for Eclipse because it only works with Java projects.) I am going to try the free version of Together, but unless it's remarkably faster (and has a smaller footprint) than VPUML, I doubt I'll switch - I'm just learning UML, after all. I would like to try QuickUML, but the demo costs $50, and I also haven't tried ConceptDraw yet, but again, there's no free version, so that's automatically over my budget (which is $0.) :) On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:58:56 -0600, Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > I've got the blog set to allow anyone to comment, even anonymous > comments... if anyone else has this problem let me know and I'll > advise blogger.com of the issue. > > It might be helpful if I give the URL to the entry about UML tools, so > here it is: > http://cfobjective.blogspot.com/2005/01/uml-for-mou-or-uml-tool-rfc.html > > Thanks for the comments... > > J > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:42:53 -0500, Dave Carabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:09:57 -0600, Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Folks... > > > > > > I'm curious to know which UML tools people around here use... > > > > > > I've just blogged my UML tool thoughts, was wondering if people would > > > be willing to leave comments on the subject. It's easier to track the > > > information when it's in that format because it stays associated with > > > the original topic. > > > > > > So the blog URL is http://cfobjective.blogspot.com and I've got > > > commenting set to Anyone... > > > > > > > (Sorry, I'm not registering with the site just to leave a comment on > > your blog, so I'll post it here.) > > > > In reference to the Together products, there is now a free version > > which should cover really all you'll need to do basic UML modeling. > > You don't need to spend $3500!! (Watch for wrapping) > > > > http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2004/07_27_04_borland_introduces_together_designer_community_edition.html > > > > Regards, > > Dave. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190310 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
