From: Bob Gustafson <bobgus@...>
Date: 2001-12-12T15:51:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28321] Re: Rendering UML diagrams?

For completeness, you might look at DIA at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

I wll take a look at the utwente stuff - I did not know it existed.

Thanks.

BobG

Michael Sullivan wrote on Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:06:55 -0500
>Well, it's not XMI or XML, but there is a quite nice modelling tool:
>
>http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm
>
>It's file format is quite well documented.  One of the best I've seen of
>the "free" UML/Diagramming tools.
>
>Dia stores its drawings in compressed XML, but I'm not impressed with
>the UML support for DIA.  It just isn't there enough to really be
>useable IMHO.
>
>Mike
>
>On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:38:17PM +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
>> > From: Robert Feldt [mailto:feldt@ce.chalmers.se]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:54 PM
>> >
>> > Since Dave's cool rubydoc is coming along I wonder if we should try to
>> > autocreate UML diagrams from our Ruby sources and hook them in there? I'm
>> > not sure its worth it but I guess it might be cool and it can never hurt
>> > to be buzzword (if it still is) compliant ;-).
>> >
>> > There is API2XML which can show class diagram but going full UML might be
>> > beneficial?! Ideas?
>> >
>> > So it would be great if someone knows a tool for rendering UML
>> > diagrams that take XMI (XML representation for UML diagrams?) and give
>> > nice graphic? If there isn't something out there maybe one can use
>> > SVG? Any pointers appreciated.
>>
>> If someone wants to do this, please let me know because I would love to
>> include something like that in my Ruby IDE project.
>>
>> Curt
>>
>
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