We (Hadassah College - Computer Science) want to give
a course in " Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)"
and are looking for and open source solution instead of
purchasing Rational ClearCase .
I would appreciate anybody's suggestions.
Josh Roden
I'm having the same problem at the moment - finding a decent UML/CASE tool that works on Linux, and is free (not the same).
I'll share with you what I've dug up, and I suggest you try a few and see which one 'floats your boat':
* Argouml - Free, Java based (aka sluggish) , limited in capabilities - only a few diagram types are supported.
* Poseidon - there are a few versions (based on Argouml). I used version 1.6 Community Edition. I thought it was the best solution for me - it has more capabilities than Argo. It still a bit sluggish, and a little buggy (doesn't work well with big documents which contain dozens of classes). Oh, and you can't print in the CE version.
* Dia - not a case tool but a diagram tool, which has some limited UML capabilites. Free, but pretty ugly (it matters!), and not "intelligent" - doesn't really know about classes and attributes, except from a graphical point of view.
* Umbrello - haven't used it. QT based, find it at http://uml.sourceforge.net/index.php
* TCM - Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/ . Haven't used it, so I can't comment.
* Rational Rose - the mother of all CASE tools. There are evaluation versions that you can download (about 90 MB). I found it to be an overkill, and "too smart", but I'm not working on enterprise wide projects or anything like that.
Like I mentioned before, I found Poseidon CE to offer the best combination of features, although it's not without its faults. I don't know what their prices are like for the higher end versions.
Cheers, Gad
-- http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~gabraham
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