One Thing Missing From Free IDEs: Roundtrip UML Class Diagrams
The last few years have seen great strides in the availability of free (as in beer) graphical development environments. Netbeans and Eclipse being the most important for Java developers. However, there’s one important feature that’s missing from these two leading free tools; something that I think developers would find massively useful. And that something is full rountrip UML Class Diagram editing.
In terms of helping developers that use free tools be more productive, giving them a free tool to help them think at the level of the Class would be a massive boon. Of course, it needs to be the real thing: that means the editing needs to be fully roundtrip, so that diagrams are always in sync with source code and vice versa.
Now that Oracle JDeveloper is available for free, and includes UML support, it might be nice for the Netbeans and Eclipse guys to start thinking about adding a bit of good UML support to their respective products too.
Simon Brocklehurst's Weblog on 10 Nov 2005 at 11:54 pm
Roundtrip Java Development/UML Modelling - Just Became Free
A little over a week ago, I said that one important thing missing from the Java developer’s armoury was a high-quality free, full-featured UML modelling tool. My preference would be for this to be integrated into Netbeans or Eclipse - especial…