2nd September, 2007 - Posted by rafael.chaves - 6 Comments
2011-03-10 – UPDATE: this same facility is used in AlphaSimple for rendering UML models online.
The primary goal of the EclipseGraphviz project is to support Eclipse-based applications that want to use Graphviz as an easy way of producing non-interactive structured diagrams without requiring the complexity of GEF or GMF.
The TextUML Toolkit is the only application currently known to be based on the EclipseGraphviz project. To support rendering UML models generated using the TextUML textual notation, EclipseGraphviz has now the ability of rendering any UML model generated using the Eclipse UML2 API.
In this screenshot, you can see the UML model used in the article “Getting started with UML2” rendered with EclipseGraphviz:
The main benefits are that the EclipseGraphviz graphical rendering of UML2 models is quite lightweight, and Graphviz produces great layouts automatically. The main caveat is that the diagrams are not interactive. Not to mention that EclipseGraphviz is still quite in its early stages, so it lacks maturity and features. And it does not run yet on non-Windows platforms.
There is where you can make a difference. Check out the project from the Subversion repository, give it a try, and contribute with bug reports, feature requests and patches.
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2nd September, 2007 - Posted by rafael.chaves - 3 Comments
After a few minor bug fixes and improvements to the test build, the M2 milestone of TextUML Toolkit is available. With this milestone you can:
- create UML models using the TextUML textual representation
- visualize the model created using the conventional graphical notation for class diagrams
This milestone does not support non-Windows platforms. But progress is being made in that direction. See below a screenshot of TextUML Toolkit running on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn:
Just go to the download page and fetch it, it is free with no restrictions (or guarantees). Make sure to check out the tutorial. Your feedback is most appreciated.
Now off to a long weekend on the beach…
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