UML tools * Added by Cristian Bancos, last edited by Cristian Bancos on Feb 11, 2010 (view change) Comment:

I did some research on possible UML tools we could use. The main constrain was t he free open source condition. I found 2 tools that catch my attention: 1. Umbrello which is nice free open source tool with powerfull featurs like f orward and reverse engineering. 2. UML2Tools plugin for Eclipse which is not very powerfull (from what I can see so far) but it has the big advantage of being an Eclipse plugin, so we can view/edit the design specs directly in Eclipse. Another big plus is that we can take advantage of the SVN Eclipse setup (the design specs will be part of the pr oject itself). The main resource page for UML2Tools is http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT-UML2Tools. A lso see http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2tools for other related projects/subprojects. Next I will describe the main steps for installing the UML2Tools plugin: * in Eclipse go to Help - Install New Software * add and use the following url for update: http://download.eclipse.org/mode ling/mdt/updates/   (other urls may be available too) * from the list of available softwares install the latest version of: MDT UM L2 SDK and MDT UML2TOOLS SDK * after installation you should be able to create UML diagrams directly in E clipse by going to File - New - Other - UML Diagrams (you can also view existing UML dialgrams by opening the a .umlclass file)