On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:00:31AM -0330, Jamie G. wrote:
> I've used Visual Paradigm for UML back when the Kernel was first
> moving to the Felix community, they do have a community 'free' edition
> [1] however it's really striped down from their full versions (at
> least as of that time frame). 

> I think that if we were to invest time
> in developing UML diagrams than making them as accessible as possible
> via free tooling would be the best course. As to which tool to use
> bouml, umbrello, et al are all viable candidates.

+1; that was also my thought

> 
> Cheers,
> Jamie
> 
> [1] http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/vpuml.jsp?edition=ce
> 
> 2010/12/30 Łukasz Dywicki <[email protected]>:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > Many of vendors have academic programs and so on. We may ask for full 
> > licenses for free, non-commercial use (documentation). If they'll decline 
> > we may back to open sourced tools. What is important for me - is multi 
> > platform. Some of you working on Macs, others on Linux and I on windows. 
> > ;-) Created diagram should be exportable to some text form (for example 
> > XML/XMI) and easy to put into version control to allow tracking it and 
> > modification in future.
> >
> > Lukasz
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andreas Pieber [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 12:49 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Modeling tools
> >
> > I think some UML diagrams of the core concepts would really help to 
> > understand karafs architecture, but I'm not so sure if we should use tools 
> > which are not available for free.
> >
> > Although not too pretty e.g. bouml [1] should do the job. At least it is 
> > open source and available pre-packed on all (major) platforms/distributions.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > kind regards,
> > andreas
> >
> > [1] http://bouml.free.fr/
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:44:54PM +0100, Łukasz Dywicki wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I would ask about modeling tools that we may use to document existing
> >> features/architecture of Karaf/SMX and other projects. At this moment
> >> we don't even have any bigger architecture diagrams. May we ask some
> >> tool vendor for few licenses? I know that there is Argo/Poseidon and
> >> other modeling tools but they're very limited and don't even have
> >> reverse engineering features or these are broken. What do you think?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I thought about two products:
> >> Magic Draw for UML
> >>
> >> Visual Paradigm for UML
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Lukasz
> >>
> >
> >

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