Visual Paradigm for UML (Community Edition) 5.0 review

Visual Paradigm for the Unified Modeling Language (VP-UML) is a UML CASE tool.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Visual Paradigm Price: $0.00 Updated: 06 Jul 2005

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Visual Paradigm for the Unified Modeling Language (VP-UML) is a UML CASE tool. The tool is designed for a wide range of users, including Software Engineers, System Analysts, Business Analysts, System Architects alike, who are interested in building large scale software systems reliably through the use of the Object-Oriented approach.

VP-UML supports the latest standards of Java and UML notations and provides the industry's full round-trip code generation and code reverse engineering support for Java.

Here are some key features of "Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition":
Support All UML Diagrams (Class, Use Case, Collaboration, Sequence, State, Activity, Component, Deployment, Timing, Composite Structure)
Real Time Model Validation
Dockable User Interface
Resource Centric Interface for better Usability
Automatic Diagram Layout
Sophisticated Diagram Printing Facility
Copy Diagram Elements to System Clipboard as Image
Export Diagram as Image (JPG, PNG and SVG Format)
Support Sub-diagram for all UML Model
Provide Different Look-and-Feels for User Interface
Support Package Containment
Textual Analysis
Model Generation that Supports the Generation of Sequence Diagram from a Flow of Event and the Generation of Collaboration Diagram from a Sequence Diagram (and vice versa)
Multilingual Supports.

What's New:
Brand-new Look and Feel
With the Microsoft Office-like look and feel, it allows you to select one of the cool themes bundled which makes your VP-UML looks unique, but also re-arrange the frames, toolbars and menu bar which you are comfortable with. Other look and feels, like Visual Studio .NET look and feel and Eclipse IDE look and feel are also available.

Enhanced Visual Modeling Features
The visual modeling features are enhanced by Full Screen Diagram Editing, Visual Alignment Guide, Sweeper, Split Control Flow with Branch and Real-time Layout for Sequence Diagram.

Enhanced Smart Resources
VP-UML provides Resource-Centric interface enabling the easy creation of UML diagrams by using the valid editing resources listed around the diagram elements. Smart Resource becomes even smarter as the resources of similar nature are grouped together to minimize the number of visible resources simultaneously.

Use Case Details Editor
VP-UML 5.0 provides an all-in-one environment for use case modeling, including general model specification, multiple use case description with rich-text editing, sub-diagrams manipulation and preview.

Enhanced XMI Import/Export to support UML 2.0
The import and export of XMI is enhanced to support XMI 1.2, so you can import and export the UML 2.0 compliant model and diagrams to/from VP-UML.

EJB Diagram Support
In order to enhance the capability of EJB Development, EJB diagram is provided for user to model their EJB systems.

EJB Code Generation and Deployment
VP-UML simplifies the powerful but complicated EJB development which supports remote and distributed systems by generating beans based on the EJB model defined by user.

Customizable SQL
VP-UML generates SQL statements which are ready-to-use. In some cases you may want to customize the SQL statements, VP-UML allows you to override the generated SQL statements whenever you want to.

Advanced ORM Features
VP-UML promotes mapping one class to multiple tables which optimizes the size of database and minimizes the number of generated classes for system implementation.