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Hi,

Please let me know open source product similar to rational software architect which automatically generates java base classes on completion of design. Thanks in advance.

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Eclipse does a good job of generating code when used with its UML plugin.

Mark Iliffe
There are many plug-ins at eclipse related to UML. Can you help me to find the most used and easy tool ?
thndrkiss
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/ :-)
Mark Iliffe
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I found NetBeans and his UML plugin very helpful ...

You will probably be interested by his reverse engineering feature :

Designers and analysts design applications using the UML modeling language, then developers generate Java code from the UML model. You can also update the model from changes made in the source code ... The NetBeans UML plugin provides template-based code generation for Forward Engineering. Modify the FreeMaker templates included with the NetBeans IDE to customize how code is generated ...

wj