Hi,
Just skimmed this : “I tried Poseidon's demo, and it basically worked the same way with some shinier UI and one or two new ways of working with designs.)” and thought: Has anyone thought of asking for openclipart or Inkscape folk to knock up some swish new icons? Never underestimate the value of eye candy :o) Regards, Graham -----Original Message----- From: Tony | "Zearin" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2008 19:55 To: [email protected] Subject: [argouml-dev] Another open source developer's tool Heylo everyone. I wanted to tell you about another tool for developers I found a little while ago. It's called Factory (though stored in the database as "Project Factory", possibly a previous name for the software). It's a side-project written by a French developer named David Lambert. Factory is designed to track lots of data about projects, and is written with teams of developers in mind, although I imagine it could be useful to single developers as well. Some central concepts are Actors, Teams, Organizations, Locations, Schedules, and (of course) Projects. It's also capable of code generation, but this feature is not yet an easily visible part of the program. According to author David Lambert, at this point in its development, over 50% of Factory's code has been generated by Factory itself. Kinda cool. :) I've tried the program and I think it's extremely well done, but could stand several usability enhancements. Not so much in the realms of unexpected behavior--it is reasonably predictable--but more in the sense that I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to provide a lot of the forms. For example, Projects contain version-based Plans, which in turn contain Forecast, Status, and Tracking screens. I don't know what the hell to do with these. Maybe it's because the author is French; or because I'm a reasonably inexperienced programmer, since my foundations are in webpages; or maybe it's something that just needs more work. Despite this fact, I think it nevertheless has a lot of potential in its future--possibly including collaboration with ArgoUML--although I don't believe either team is ready for this yet. When that time comes, however, I think there's the possibility of some beautiful cooperation between programs, if that's not overly-wishful thinking on my part. :) (I actually wrote David Lambert and told him about ArgoUML. He says it's a good thing to keep on the radar, but it's not on his short-term list just yet. He did mention that he uses Poseidon, a commercial tool based on ArgoUML. I tried Poseidon's demo, and it basically worked the same way with some shinier UI and one or two new ways of working with designs.) Factory lives on SourceForge. HYPERLINK "http://projectfactory.sourceforge.net"The public site is here, and the HYPERLINK "http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectfactory/"developer's site is here. I especially recommend checking out the "White Paper"and "Background" pages of the public site. I found them interesting reads. That's all for now. Thanks for reading! -- Tony | "Zearin" No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.1/1220 - Release Date: 11/01/2008 18:09 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.5/1228 - Release Date: 16/01/2008 09:01
