uml-modeling

Is StarUML dead?

StarUML is a very powerful, free and easy-to-use UML modeling tool, but it seems the project stopped. Does anyone know what happened? Is it possible to get a new version of it? ...

Designing JSF applications with UML 2

Does anyone know of a good article about how to represent a JSF application in JSF? I found the article on JSF central about the storyboard approach. However, this is incomplete. This is the only resource I can find on this subject. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance, Zack ...

What modeling technique/tool/diagram would you recommend for a rails/grails application?

I am interesting in a diagramming methodology that can capture user-interaction in a way that will incorporate the "screens" along with the "actions", and how those are driven by controllers,views and services. ...

Please suggest me a tool to create a Domain Model diagram

Hi, Could someone please suggest me a tool to create a Domain Model diagram? Some details: I am running Windows at the moment A tool is free It's not a pencil and a sheet of paper It should be easy to use, i.e. I don't want to spend more than 5 minutes for a relatively simple diagram I hate MS Visio. IMHO, It's ill-designed. Thanks....

Differences of Component Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams?

what are the Differences of Component Diagrams and Deployment Diagrams? ...

UM Modeling: Analysis Class (boundary vs. control class)

I am taking a software engineering course and we use Java to implement some of the concepts. I have a question with regards to Control and Boundary Classes - I am having a hard time grasping the concept. I have read this previous question and its answers many times and still cannot find the difference between the two: boundary classe...

UML Specification - Without Change Bars vs With Change Bars & Superstructure vs Infrastructure

Regarding the specifications here: http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/uml.htm What is the difference btn without and with change bars? As for "superstructure and infrastructure", I found out the following: "The UML infrastructure specification defines the foundational language constructs required for UML 2.1.2. It is comple...

Automatically Create UML diagrams from Visual Studio 2008

Is there any tool\Software that make automatically UML diagrams from an existing visual studio 2008 project (C#). (Tools work with Visual Studio 2010 also appreciated.) *UML Diagrams may be all types eg, object, class, domain, collaboration, componant, state, deployment etc and test cases etc I currently used .net framework 3.5. I hav...

How to export Visual Studio 2010 UML Modeling Diagrams

Hello! I recently created a very nice UML Class diagram inside Visual Studio 2010 (b2). The tools worked like a charm and I was able to model a rather complex domain within minutes. However, I cannot find any way to export my diagram as an image (PNG/JPEG/etc.). Does the modelling features in VS2010 support exporting diagrams as image...

visio 2003: c# UML class diagrams - abstract class

I am trying to create UML diagrams but can not mark a class as Abstract. Please help. ...

how to model mutually exclusive attributes in UML?

I'm working up an analysis model in UML, and I'm a bit stuck when trying to represent a constraint on a couple of attributes in a class diagram. In the following class: +-----------+ | SomeClass | +-----------+ | isFoo | | isBar | | isBaz | | isQuux | +-----------+ all the listed attributes are Boolean types, and the f...

How Much Designing Should Go On Before Any Coding Takes Place?

I'm currently in school and for my Senior Project we have to spend 1/3 terms just doing UML diagrams and other tedious documentation for our project. This involves alot of designing and planning for future problems that have yet to occur. For some reason this seems to be to encourage over designing. I've spent the last hour writing stu...

Software for Sequence Diagrams?

I've been using NClass for object/class modeling in class thus far. However, I do not believe that it is capable of sequence diagrams, which is my next task. I would prefer not to use Visio. Is there a good and free software solution for making sequence diagrams? ...

auto generate class diagrams from solution?

Is there a free tool that can create class diagrams for us? We want to run this on a solution and have the software generate a complete diagram of the classes and inter relationships for us. A UML - like diagram would be best. We currently have VSTS 2008 and it would be great if this was built in. ...

UML of website page navigation

I need someones help in creating UML for web navigation: If the dropdown in page1 have values "A" "B" "D" Web navigates by.. Page1 -> Page2 -> Page 3-> Page 4 if a drop down in page 1 is having value "C" then Page1 -> Page2 -> Page 4 Please help in creating a UML for this. ...

Do you know of any good UML sample?

I need some sample UML diagrams for some project of medium complexity. Do you know of anywhere where I can find some? I don't need them for learning UML, but rather to test my application that I work on and that should be able to process UML diagrams. It would suffice to have Class diagram, Package diagram and Component diagram, but th...

Rhapsody TestConductor Experiences

I was wondering whether anybody out there is actively using Rhapsody TestConductor? Or has tried it for a while, but then decided to turn it down for a particular reason? If so, what are your experiences, in which field do you apply it, what are the shortcomings, or why did you turn it down? At the moment we're considering TestConductor...

UML arrows/pointers explanation

Hello, I have recently been studying UML and drawing simple diagrams with ordinary plain arrows between classes. But I know its not enought, there is plenty other arrows generalization, realization and etc which has meaning to the diagram reader. Maybe is there a nice resource which could explain each arrow(ordinary,plain, dotted, diamo...

Creating Java UML Automatically in NetBeans 6.7

I have three packages in NetBeans 6.7 that i want to generate a UML Class diagram automatically for. I have created the new Model by reverse engineering my project, but when i highlight all three packages under the 'Model' heading and select 'Create diagram from selected elements' i just end up with 3 green boxes. I can create separate d...

Drawing UML state diagrams

When drawing state diagrams, how do you know which states get put in boxes and which states are for the transition arrows? I noticed that transitions are states too. I'm looking at figure 1 on this page: UML 2 State Machine Diagrams ...