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As you know, UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standardized general purpose modeling language . It includes a set of graphical notation techniques to create visual models of the software-intensive systems. There are many business process, architecture, software and system modeling design tools based on the UML. Now you can create a perfect chartflow in a few minutes. Following we have collect 60+ very useful UML tools for your reference. Hope they will be helpful to your work if you still design the chart flow only in the excel.
AmaterasUML is an Eclipse plug-in for drawing UML class-diagram, and UML sequence-diagram.
OpenAmeos is the multi-platform/multi-user UML Modeling Environment with unique support for UML 2.0 Profiles, MDA® based Model Transformation and support for color to visualize semantics.
AndroMDA is one of the most powerful Open Source MDA Generators on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple CRUD applications to complex enterprise applications. AndroMDA comes with an array of ready-made cartridges for common architectures like Spring, EJB, .NET, Hibernate, Struts and even more.
It is a cost-effective way to create projects with high quality in the shortest possible time. This involves the project management including communication with customers from Hamburg and actual implementation by Gentleware Ukraine.
ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. You can use it by download and install or launch via Java Web.
It is the better way to capture requirements. Specify use cases, requirements, diagrams, test cases, and screen prototypes.
Draw professional quality UML diagrams on Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000.
Cradle is a fully customisable, extensible package that can assist you in maximising control, efficiency, traceability, security, usability and durability of your projects to help you to deliver your projects to a successful outcome to budget and on time.
EmbeddedPlus products automate and accelerate the development process on several levels, from defining to delivering the product.
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
EclipseUML architecture is composed of 4 stages which reduces complexity and opens new frontiers in traditonal object oriented modeling. The new revolutionary Omondo architecture is built on the top of MOF and uses Ecore as opposed to traditional tools which use transformation layers.
UML Diagram is ideal for software engineers and software designers who need to draw detailed software design documentation.
EiffelStudio is the most powerful development environment for creating mission critical applications for the Windows operating system. In addition, if you are considering a move to .NET from some other platform, chances are that EiffelStudio will allow you to do it 10 times more easily and safely.
It is the ultimate, cross domain modeling tool for the whole team, strategically linking Business, IT and system.
The primary topic of the Fujaba Tool Suite project is to provide an easy to extend UML, Story Driven Modelling and Graph Transformation platform with the ability to add plug-ins.
gModeler is a free online UML diagramming and documentation tool, targetted at developers working with ECMA 262 languages such as FlashMX’s Actionscript, and Javascript. In addition to it’s diagramming capabilities, it exports HTML documentation, FlashMX XML documentation (for the Action Panel and Reference Panel) and stub code (class code).
green is a LIVE round-tripping editor, meaning that it supports both software engineering and reverse engineering. You can use green to create a UML class diagram from code, or to generate code by drawing a class diagram.
Javelin is a high productivity yet lightweight development tool that allows software developers, analysts, consultants, mentors, educators to drive any Java development through a set of "live" class diagrams. It provides ‘zero time’ synchronized generation and management of code and the meta-data required for persisting your object model to Hibernate or JDO persistence technologies.
JUDE/Professional is a unique System Design Tool which supports UML, Entity Relationship Diagram, Flowchart, CRUD, Mind Map and Data Flow Diagram. It enables to mutually convert models!
MagicDraw is an award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. Designed for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers, and Documentation Writers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases.
Metamill is a powerful UML modeling software supporting latest standards. Version 5.0 is a big milestone for Metamill – it now supports all 13 diagrams of UML 2.1, including timing diagrams. Models are now in XMI 2.1 format. All licensing options support round-trip code engineering for Java, C++, C, C# and VB.Net. HTML documentation can be generated from models.
MetaEdit+ Workbench is a tool for designing your modeling language: its concepts, rules, notations and generators. The language definition is stored as a metamodel in the MetaEdit+ repository.
ModelMaker is a two-way class tree oriented productivity, refactoring and UML-style CASE tool.
The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of an open-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using the Java platform, as well as JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
BridgePoint is an advanced, proven, UML-based environment that enables getting real-time embedded applications right the first time. It provides high quality, regular code conforming to any convention or standard.
Objecteering provides integral support of complete UML2 standard modeling, BPMN modeling for business processes integrated with UML, models dedicated to enterprise architecture (EA), models for technical systems (SysML), and models dedicated to requirements, goals, dictionary terms and business rules.
With objectiF you can automate a lot of your software development according to the principles of Model-Driven Development – MDD. It offers everything you need for the efficient, highly agile, model-driven development of applications in an organization, or of technical applications with SOA, Web Services and Messages, Client-Server applications and Embedded Software.
Open ModelSphere is a powerful free data, process and UML modeling tool / software. Open ModelSphere covers conceptual and logical data modeling as well as physical design, i.e. database modeling (database modelling). It supports several notations, e.g. Entity-Relationship, DATARUN and Information Engineering. Conceptual models can be converted to relational models and vice versa.
Papyrus is a dedicated tool for modelling within UML2. This open source tool is based on the Eclipse environment.
It includes new usability features to make your models not only quicker and simpler to create, but also easier to share and communicate with other stakeholders.
Metastorm ProVision EA is an integrated business strategy, process and UML system modeling environment. It helps business and information technology professionals model and evaluate the business processes and system components for their enterprise.
PowerDesigner is an industry-leading modeling and metadata management solution for data modeling, information architecture, and enterprise architecture.
PyUt is a little UML1.3 class diagram editor with plugins support. Export to XML, JPEG, BMP, PS. PyUt stands for Python UML Toolkit.
Design object-oriented software with a highly integrated, core set of UML models. Your entire project is presented through a multi-panel window showing use cases, class models, object models, dictionary and code.
Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) is a collection of quantitative methods and algorithms used to analyze real-time systems. The analysis determines whether your system is schedulable. In other words, RMA determines whether all tasks will execute by the appropriate dealines using the resources specified.
The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® solution is a model-driven development (MDD) environment for real-time or embedded systems engineering, software development, and test based on UML and SysML.
Real Time Developer Studio is a modeling tool for real time and embedded software. It is suited for any communicating systems or any application running on top of a Real Time Operating System. It covers requirements, specification, prototyping, design, debug on target, and testing.
Select Solution for MDA is a ground breaking modeling and transformation tool designed to generate, reverse engineer and synchronize all your model viewpoints and your code, based upon UML designs within Select Architect.
SequenceViz is a tool to generate sequence diagrams by reverse engineering .NET Assemblies. Although it does a little more than that in the later versions. See the following posts for more information.
SmartDraw translates whatever you need to communicate into compelling, professional-quality visuals in minutes—eliminating the need for manual drawing. Start by selecting the exact template you need, add your message and SmartDraw does the rest.
SmartState is Most Popular UML State Chart CASE Tool which Supports Sub, Concurrent & Nested State Machines with 100% State Machine Code Generation in C++, Java, C, C#.
StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.
The agility of all development activites starts at the code-base – as it gets more complex, it becomes harder, slower, and more expensive to change. Structure101™ lets teams develop simpler code-bases with defined architectures, so they get more done in less time. Simple as that.
Model-Driven Code Generation featuring Drag&Drop UI-Desgin (Software factory supporting DSL & UML)
Borland Together 2008 technologies enable you to analyze, design and implement flexible and maintainable software architectures that can be easily modified as requirements change.
specification and architecture at equipment, software and hardware level. Detailed system specification for software intensive systems.
Trace Modeler is the sequence diagram editor that lets you work smart instead of hard. Its intelligent drag&drop interface and automatic diagram layout is guaranteed to make you more productive.
Pacestar UML Diagrammer helps you generate UML 2.0 diagrams quickly and easily. Develop, document, and communicate your designs in a systematic yet flexible AND commonly understood notation.
Umbrello UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language diagram programme for KDE. UML allows you to create diagrams of software and other systems in a standard format.
The Unified Modeling Language is an object-oriented analysis and design modeling language. U.M.L. defines a notation, mainly graphical, to specify and design software systems. Informal semantics are attached to each element of the notation. This notation defines a meta-model allowing the description of the elements of the system, and relations between them.
UMLGraph allows the declarative specification and drawing of UML class and sequence diagrams. The current features are part of an ongoing effort aiming to provide support for all types UML diagrams.
UML Pad is a CASE tool for UML diagrams design. It supports Use Case, Class, Sequence, State and Activity diagrams.
It allows printing and exporting of the diagram image. For Class diagrams it’s also possible to export the documentation in html format.
Try UMLStudio for a few minutes to see how easy object modelling can be! Build OO models quickly and intuitively. Structure your ideas with ease. Communicate your designs effectively. UMLStudio puts real power at your finger tips!
UModel 2010 supports all 14 UML 2.2 diagram types plus a special UML diagram for XML Schemas – giving you freedom to follow your development team’s individual needs and preferences. UModel® 2010 Enterprise Edition even supports all SysML diagrams for embedded systems modeling and business process modeling with BPMN diagrams.
Visual Classworks (TM) is the world’s slickest, light weight, visual object oriented development tool for C++ because it raises the plane on which you perform your analysis, design, implementation and coding.
Visual Case is a powerful AMD Tool for software development, database design, database maintenance and business analysis.
IAR visualSTATE is a set of highly sophisticated and easy-to-use development tools for designing, testing and implementing embedded applications based on state machines.
Visual Paradigm for UML is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) tool that supports all UML 2.2 diagrams, SysML diagrams and entity relationship diagram. Visual Paradigm for UML helps generate ready-to-use Java, C#, C++ and PHP code and database.
Visual UML (VUML) is an affordable, easy-to-use yet powerful and full-featured highly UML-compliant object-modeling tool that provides complete and comprehensive support for all ten of the diagram types defined in the OMG 1.3 & 1.4 UML (Unified Modeling Language)
Visual Use Case is an easy to use, revolutionary Use Case Authoring and Diagramming tool. Visual Use Case will help you write effective Use Cases faster and help you document your system’s requirements accurately.
XCoder is an extensible model transformation and code generation frameworkimplementing the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standard of the Object Management Group. XCoder generates arbitrary output from UML models via an XMI interface.
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Hye, Martijn
Why SmartDraw is not a UML tool? I found some tutorials on how to draw a UML with SmartDraw here:
http://www.smartdraw.com/resources/tutorials/Introduction-to-UML#/resources/tutorials/UML-Class-Diagrams
Thank you for putting up JUDE.
Just wanted to share the news with you that JUDE has been changed to astah* with new look, edition and even more features.
astah* website : http://astah.change-vision.com/en/
Cheers
Here’s another useful online UML tool I found – http://creately.com
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