[pyswarm-users] UML tool candidates

[Anastasios H. <ah...@ha...>]

Hi,

following you see a list of Free Software UML tools I have found until now. If 
you know any of these tools please help deciding if there are good candidates 
to be the next UML tool(s) supported by pyswarm SDK. Support means uni- or 
bi-directional exchange of XMI files, or in some cases model exchange via a 
Python API).

Of course any other comments are appreciated, e.g. if you know another Free 
Software tool or in case of any questions. If you want you can also add your 
rate.

Best regards,
Anastasios

And here are the candidates in alphabetical order; rating speaks for 
itself ;) -1  -0  +0  +1  [http://httpd.apache.org/dev/guidelines.html]


ArgoUML
http://argouml.tigris.org
Well, I need comments of ArgoUML users. The information I found yet were not 
too positive about ArgoUML. (Poseidon is a commercial product based on 
ArgoUML)
-0


Dia
http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Actually for many kinds of diagrams, including UML. Has also Python plug-in 
API [http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Python], so maybe a candidate for 
UML/Python-tree exchange. No XMI support.
+0


Gaphor
http://gaphor.sourceforge.net/
UML tool written in Python. A pretty good candidate, at least for 
UML/Python-tree exchange.
+1


Kermeta
http://www.kermeta.org/
Modeling and transformation language. Doesn't seem to be the right candidate.
-1


NetBeans IDE
http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/flash.html
Seems to be exclusively for Java-flavor apps. Can someone confirm this?
-1


Stani's Python Editor (SPE)
http://pythonide.stani.be/
Well, I don't know why Wikipedia does list SPE as UML tool. Anyone here who 
knows?
??


StarUML
http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/
Positive user comments regarding usability, but negative regarding commercial 
tools that are needed for further development. Maybe this is the reason why 
this project looks dead.
-0


UML pad
http://web.tiscali.it/ggbhome/umlpad/umlpad.htm
No XMI support.
-1


UMLet
http://www.umlet.com/
No XMI format.
-1


Umbrella
http://uml.sourceforge.net/
I have asked in umbrella-users@ for detail information on UML/XMI. It is XMI 
1.2, but seems to miss TagDefinition/TaggedValue yet. Work-around?
+1