Am Friday, 3. August 2012 schrieb Achim Nierbeck: > Hi, hello all, > comments inline :) > > regards, Achim > > 2012/8/3 Harald Wellmann <hwellmann...@gmail.com>: > > UML diagrams certainly would be nice, but I'm a bit wary about > > creating yet another tool dependency. > > > > I gather that all the tools you mentioned are commercial. Even if we > > got a free license for the UML tool, there would still be the issue of > > integrating the tool into JIRA and/or Confluence. > > > > OPS4J is running on a SaaS program from Atlassian called JIRA Studio > > which is slowly degrading to a degree that I've started thinking about > > alternatives. (Keywords: Github links broken, no upgrade path from > > JIRA Studio to JIRA OnDemand without breaking URLs, OnDemand with > > Confluence 5 - the world's only Wiki without Wiki markup, and no > > control over the plugins you install in your instance). > > good point, besides even if we get a free oss license would it still > be integrative into Confluence / Jira > > > So it might in fact be better to work with an offline UML tool, commit > > the diagram sources to Github and simply upload images to Confluence > > or any other documentation system. > > probably a better alternative ...
have a look at * PlantUML http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/ * UMLet http://www.umlet.com/ * Diagrams feature of IntelliJ IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/uml_designer.html regards, O. > > Actually, I think drawing a diagram on a whiteboard and taking a photo > > is usually the most efficient way of creating a UML diagram. At least > > compared to the UML tools I've worked with in the past which are > > terribly unintuitive and enormous time eaters (Together, Enterprise > > Architect, Magic Draw, Visual Paradigm). > > HA, you speak directly out of my sole, though I have to admit I don't > have a whitebaord at home to take pictures from ;) > > > Best regards, > > Harald > > > > 2012/8/3 Björn Pollex <bjoern.pol...@googlemail.com>: > >> In the spirit of collaboration, it would be > >> extremely useful to have a Web-based UML-tool embedded in the Jira and > >> > >> Confluence. There are several that have this ability: > >> * http://creately.com/ > >> * http://www.gliffy.com/ > >> * http://yuml.me/ > >> * https://www.lucidchart.com/ > > _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.ops4j.org http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general
