UML Modelling Tool

Splendid

Someday i'll do more than just ask for help, but not today.

Can anyone recommend a good open source UML modelling tool?

Thank you.

Karoma

My recommendation: Poseidon For UML (comunity edition) or ArgoUML.

Others/Longer list:
http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byPlatform.html

projectmayhem

this may seem a stupid question, but i'll ask anyway...

is UML important? i know it tends to be part of getting a programming job (as in, you do a sample bit of code and map it via UML to show your leet skillz and all), but is it a vital part of programming life? personally, if someone showed me a UML diagram and told me to make a program from it i'd get fairly lost fairly quickly...

(note: i do comp sci, second year... we do UML and it seems a waste of a class to do in an entire year, hence question)

Karoma

It's a standardised way of visualising how a project fits together,and how parts should work... Colleges go overboard and are far too specific IMHO.

I view it as a sketch - but because it's standardised, and documented if i show it to someone else who is familiar with UML - they can dig it. dig it?

So, in short: Yeah. It's important. And, more important: It can work.

djmarkus

We use rational rose in college, as a piece of software i think its a buggy piece of crap tho.

projectmayhem

that's what we use in college. pile of ****e. i've used some open source stuff, much better. after all, all it has to do is draw lines, stick-men, arrows and boxes

CerebralCortex

Would I be correct in recommending violet by Cay Horstmann?

Karoma

"Roses are rational, violets are GNU." *groan*
That's actually not 'alf bad:)I don't like UML tools generating code anyway.

And, agreed, Rational Rose is overprice, bloated bugware.

*..continues playing with Violet.. *

leesong

UML Tools I have used and think are OK:

- umbrello (KDE/Linux http://uml.sourceforge.net/index.php)
- argoUML
- UMLET (java, http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~auer/umlet/) - basic with a quirky I/F but v fast

voxpop

Used Dia - http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ - isnt too bad, but not super