TextUML Toolkit is now available on multiple platforms

3rd March, 2008 - Posted by rafael.chaves - 2 Comments

The latest milestone (M3) of the TextUML Toolkit has been declared today, as promised earlier here. As I said before, the focus for this milestone was stability and performance, so you can expect a much snappier and more solid tool. But it also includes some cool new features:

  • you can drop UML2 models created elsewhere into a MDD project and you can use them from your TextUML code as you would with models created using the Toolkit
  • you can even decompile a UML2 model and read it using the TextUML syntax with the TextUML Viewer (which takes over as the default editor for *.uml files)
  • you can auto-format the current compilation unit with Ctrl-Shift-F
  • and last but not least: Linux and Mac OS X (Power PC and Intel) are now supported

The main reason for this focus on performance and robustness is that the tool must be something that people can rely upon and become productive with. From now on, real user demand must drive the addition of any new features and bug fixing efforts. So now it is your turn. Download the TextUML Toolkit and start using it for creating your UML models. It is free! If you like the approach of modeling using a textual notation, I am sure you will enjoy it. And even if you haven’t bought the idea yet, give it a try. I would be more than glad of hearing your suggestions and opinions. And more importantly, will make sure that any problems reported will be promptly addressed.

Looking forward to your comments, either here or by e-mail on the Abstratt forum. Cheers.

Rafael

Posted on: March 3, 2008

Filed under: TextUML Toolkit

2 Comments

Michael

April 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am    


Just downloaded it and installed graphviz (with macports) on my Intel Mac running OSX 10.4. Have had a little play and so far so good ! I really like the concept. Thanks.

rchaves

April 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 am    


Cool, thanks! If you have any issues or questions, please let me know.

And watch for the next milestone (M4, which will be available by the end of the month), for which the goal is to be complete and solid enough so it is ready for beta testing. It will also integrate a 3rd-party code generator (Acceleo) and a complete example of code generation. Stay tuned!

Rafael

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