From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 2 22:18:49 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 E53A316A400 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 22:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4246043D48 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 22:18:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pietro.cerutti@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so3748uge for ; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:18:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U95wvc9VrCdUz6LrDGHFiN2IZkf0bi3EJLMOZDnkn05Ee/PS2sG3GVtIFs3VAAEKWaKiJYVzkpb8DjuuwBMa7wvUr6ADxbaFUn6Mvs+Mj6LIk7i21tUJrsR9IBgwVnslxjrvTXGCwRzXL8vGDg4VyqAW3kRmV90Fla6vFFVWiys= Received: by 10.78.57.11 with SMTP id f11mr11716hua; Tue, 02 May 2006 15:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.33.6 with HTTP; Tue, 2 May 2006 15:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 00:18:48 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" To: gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com, freebsd In-Reply-To: <01bb01c66e2d$8265a140$6501a8c0@workdog> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <01bb01c66e2d$8265a140$6501a8c0@workdog> Cc: Subject: Re: UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 22:18:50 -0000 On 5/2/06, Gayn Winters 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 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