I was also going to suggest dia. I have not used it for UML. Just generalized block diagrams. Earlier versions have crashed on me, but I've never gotten a corrupted file. And in any case, the file is in XML, so you can edit it. I've done that quite a bit when I wanted to do a global edit that dia wanted me to do the slow way.
I have a map of my house that I did with dia. It shows all the outlets and lights and indicates which breaker goes with each. I can tell it to hide that layer and instead show the dimensions of the rooms. There is quite a bit of info in the file. Chances are dia will do what you need.
Some distributions of Linux come with dia pre-installed. Debian
has a .deb package. I see there is a UML tutorial near the
top of this page. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/links.html
That same page mentions that dia was inspired by visio, so you
may find the transition not too painful.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Jason Van Cleve wrote:
Someone already mentioned Poseidon, which IIRC is written in Java. Technically it's non-free as a result. However, it does have something many other tools don't -- an interface to a performance modelling tool called PEPA, also written in Java. Do a web search for PEPA; it's from Edinburgh IIRC.I think I'm going to lose it, here, fellows. Visio is the one reason I still rely on Windoesn't for developing software. UML diagrams are good, and I wouldn't want to design an application without them; but there really isn't a Linux equivalent to Visio. Argo, last I looked, just doesn't hold a candle.
And yet, the Windon't machine I use for this purpose has been spontaneously rebooting--a lot. And the last couple of times this happened, my Visio document was corrupted, so that Visio wouldn't open it (even denied that it was a Visio file!). So both times, my work was lost permanently. This is unacceptable.
I wanted to ask you all, once more, if there are ANY good UML tools for Linux--anything better than Argo, just to raise a standard. But now I'm ready to bust my knuckles on this POS WinXP tower, and I would consider almost any alternative, so long as it's Linux based.
Have you UML lovers any creative ideas, tools and techniques, that might help me break my Visio addiction? I've come to depend on UML diagrams for design; and I'm almost ready to consider pencil and paper, but not quite. :]
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There is also Kivio. The basic tool is free, but I believe added templates cost money. I've never used Kivio. And ... there's Dia. Dia is Gnu free as in freedom, reasonable robust for something with a 0.9x version number, and has add-on software "dia2code" for generating code from UML. I've never used this part of it, so I can't testify to its usability.
Just in case you're interested in database modeling, Dia also has an add-on that does that, though I've forgotten what it's called. And there is DBDesigner4 -- another package written in Java. I've found that most large-scale Java-based packages run reliably only with the Sun JRE, so be careful.
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