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Subject: Re: [soa-rm-ra] UML Modeling Tool Comparison


Adding my $0.02:

I'm now leaning (falling) toward Visual Paradigm since its low end 
pro toolset works with all leading IDEs and roundtrips J2EE w/XMI, I 
believe, and is $200<MagicDraw. Doesn't do concept maps last I 
checked.

Cheers,
Rex

At 9:43 PM -0400 6/15/06, Ken Laskey wrote:
>Thanks, Danny, for the prompt action.
>
>On Jun 15, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Danny Thornton wrote:
>
>>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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