[ECUArch-gen] Competitive product to be released?

[Mike P. <pa...@se...>]

Hi,

while checking the website of my favorite UML modeling tool Enterprise
Architect, I had a chance to testdrive their new 4.0 beta, which allows
UML 2 compliant modeling (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au).

Looking at their supported UML 2 composite diagrams, they enable
building exactly the kind of logical architectures I had in mind for ECU
Architect. In short, I am not sure whether continuing this project or
the original setup is still feasible. Compared to typical commercial
toolkits, which cost around $5000 a seat, an open source project makes
sense. But in the light of an almost perfect $150 tool, this becomes
questionable. In particular for an application that is mainly targeted
at a corporate environment, which usually does not easily settle for
non-commercial software at all.

One option could be to change the project goal, or its implementation,
such that not a stand-alone application would be developed, but much
rather a set of plug-ins and add-ons for instance for a tool like
Enterprise Architect. This goal needs to be further examined in terms of
technical feasibility.

Mike