In the past I have often used the UML tools/solutions available as Eclipse plugins. And I mainly used the use-case part for generating those diagrams. But without an export to .rtf such a tool is useless...
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Jacques Le Roux < [email protected]> wrote: > > Le 19/02/2015 17:19, Ron Wheeler a écrit : > >> That would be great. >> I do not have write access to that part of the wiki but I could >> contribute some text and examples and links to the sites that I have found >> for Graphviz. >> >> It would be good to have some guidelines ( "Use the embedded Wiki tools >> such as Graphviz and Gliffy whenever possible." "when you create a grphic >> externally, add the source file to a child page as an attachment with the >> name of the tool and how the graphic can be regenerated." If you create Use >> Cases or other UML, add the model as a child page.") >> >> What are people using for UML? >> > > I believe most people use ArgoUML, at least I know the Neogia team did at > some point They also mentioned their UFO tool http://www.neogia.org/wiki/ > index.php/U.F.O. > It has only the entity part, but anyway, sincerely I'm not a fan of UML > and such, I'm more inclined to something like Hemp where graphics are less > important > https://www.linkedin.com/groups/HEMP-Book-Now- > Available-4640689.S.255382432 > > I tend to find https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Data+ > Model+Diagrams enough for my needs. > For my day to day work, I rely more on search in OOTB *mode*.xml files. > Data Model Diagrams sounds convenient but they are also often blurring > things. When you have a data model with 800+ tables it's not surprising... > > Jacques > > > One can use Gliffy but it does not create a model so there is no >> repurposing or analysis possible from the effort of creating the drawing. >> I have only seen a few Use Case drawings in the wiki but I did not find >> the source model that was used to create the drawings or even a mention of >> the tool used and I did not check to see if they were in Gliffy or not. >> I use ArgoUML which is free and open source. >> It is pretty complete but like some other open source products, it lacks >> a bit of polish and the docs are spotty. >> >> >> Ron >> >> >> On 19/02/2015 9:49 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: >> >>> Maybe we could create a page in the wiki (children of >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/ >>> Apache+OFBiz+Contributors or directly a section in >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBADMIN/ >>> OFBiz+Contributors+Best+Practices) with Guidelines for graphics in the >>> wiki? >>> >>> Jacques >>> >>> Le 19/02/2015 15:29, Ron Wheeler a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> http://blog.lunatech.com/2007/04/27/uml-class-diagrams- >>>> confluence-using-graphviz-and-dot >>>> Shows some simple ways to add UML to the wiki using Graphviz. >>>> >>>> Ron >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >>
