Sunday, August 27, 2006

Star UML - pretty good... What about Poseidon?

Ok, Star UML is pretty good. It felt a little too restricted to code-direct diagrams as opposed to a more abstract modeling environment which is how I like to start.

Poseidon has been downloaded by over a million people. But there is no free version bar a 30-day free trial.

I am going to dig a little more into this and see if it can't just satisfy my UML needs.

Star UML Design Tool

Ok, I downloaded the Star UML Design tool. Looks like an open source UML tool. Sounds promising. I'll give it a review in a bit.

UML Free Tools

Searching the web, trying to find a good simple UML tool. After studying some basics on the UML method I am finding numerous applications where a UML design tool with be great. Of course one could be simulated using Word or Open Office, but it would be much nicer for a series of templates to be laid out ahead of time for each of the different types of diagrams and have these easily available.

I've tried the Visual Paradigm Community Edition which is free and is very nice however you can't print anything off without these annoying watermarks.