Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 00:18:48 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation Message-ID: <e572718c0605021518n7bd8dc24qc16c556eaba86e6e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <01bb01c66e2d$8265a140$6501a8c0@workdog> References: <e572718c0605021155u1bb3b8bana77a9142c9354a64@mail.gmail.com> <01bb01c66e2d$8265a140$6501a8c0@workdog>
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On 5/2/06, Gayn Winters <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> wrote: > > 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 <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> 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'm not an expert in those things, I'm just an end-user, sorry... > > I assume the port java/poseidon is the "community edition" of Poseidon, > i.e. the free and somewhat stripped down edition. You can choose your edition at `make configure` time > (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? No, AFAIK Poseidon it's completely written in Java, so it depends only on java (=3D> 1.4) The performance could be improved. In deed, it takes quite a long time to load, but once running it's quite fast... > > Bristol Systems Inc. > 714/532-6776 > www.bristolsystems.com > > > > -- Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
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