From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 2 21:15:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144CA16A405 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:15:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com) Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (fed1rmmtao08.cox.net [68.230.241.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2ED343D48 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 21:15:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com) Received: from workdog ([68.5.182.86]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060502211514.EVKS27967.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@workdog>; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:15:14 -0400 From: "Gayn Winters" To: "'Pietro Cerutti'" , "'freebsd'" Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 14:15:16 -0700 Organization: Bristol Systems Inc. Message-ID: <01bb01c66e2d$8265a140$6501a8c0@workdog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 21:15:15 -0000 > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:pietro.cerutti@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:55 AM > To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com; FreeBSD > Subject: Re: UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation > On 5/2/06, Gayn Winters wrote: > > Would anyone please recommend a graphical UML editor to run > on FreeBSD? > > I'd install an appropriate GUI for it. > > Personally, I use Poseidon from Gentleware. > You can find it in the ports system under java/poseidon. > > Ideally it would support UML 3.0 and the emerging system engineering > > profile SysML. > > As stated at http://www.uml.org/, the latest UML standard is 2.0. Am I > missing something? > I think Poseidon doesn't support SysML at the moment. Thanks! My error. UML 2.0 is the latest. I'm not sure about the latest version of XMI for interchange; however, googling for << SysML Poseidon >> gets several hits that seem to indicate that Poseidon can import an XMI description of SysML, and hence it will support SysML. (I don't understand how graphics are interchanged.) This is probably true for any UML editor that is keeping up with UML and XMI, but I'm learning as I go. See for example, http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~esukpc20/exff2005_05/exff_legacy/docs/sy sml_ap233_assembly.html I assume the port java/poseidon is the "community edition" of Poseidon, i.e. the free and somewhat stripped down edition. (http://gentleware.com/edcompare.0.html) I take it you find it adequate. Does the port depend on any particular GUI? Is the performance ok under FreeBSD's Java? I found the following list of UML editors useful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UML_tools The following link has interesting comments/opinions on this topic: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/uml.html It in turn has a link to one vendor's idea of a list of criteria for a UML editing tool: http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/modeling_tools.html. Any other recommendations for a UML editor? Anyone using UML to specify/model a large system to be developed under FreeBSD? Anyone been able to generate executable code from UML under FreeBSD? -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com