UML Modeling Tool Comparison

[Danny Thornton <danny_thornton2@yahoo.com>]

I've included an excel spread sheet containing a
comparison of Enterprise Netbeans UML, MagicDraw, and
IBM Eclipse UML2.   

To Summarize:

IBM Eclipse UML2 is not a visual UML modeling tool,
models are either imported through XMI or
programatically created through what the project calls
its modeling editor.

Enterprise Netbeans UML does not support XMI and does
not support several UML 2 diagrams - Communication,
Composite Structure, Interaction Overview, Object,
Package, and Timing Diagrams.   

If someone has another preferred UML 2.x tool that
works for them and supports XMI and is cross platform
compatible, let us know.  

About the problem uploading the XMI file to Kavi:

In several cases where we've uploaded files to Kavi,
Kavi has automatically changed the name of files to
something like 06-06-00011.000.xls. You can look at
power point file names, xml file names, and excel
spreadsheet file names as an example.  This may be due
to a specific admin option that is selected when a
document category is created.

If someone has administration privileges to the SOA RA
Kavi documents web page, can you check to see if there
is an option that could cause uploaded file names to
be changed to a date format?

For now, we will have to download the file and rename
whatever the file name is to something.xmi.  For
MagicDraw, rename the file to something.mdxml.  The
MagicDraw mdxml file is in XMI format.

Danny





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