Re: UML Xcode plugin
Re: UML Xcode plugin
- Subject: Re: UML Xcode plugin
- From: Rob Rohan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:20:36 -0800
It's a bit pricey (145USD), but it's a great tool (it also does
networks, flow charts, etc).
The only bummer part is it's export functions are kind of lacking.
As export options go, it has, i think, a decent range of formats...
It has great image exports to be sure, but what one can do with and
image or a pdf is pretty limited - from a tool chain point of view.
The only format that you could use in another process - to generate
code or whatever - is that XML Visio export (It would be the cats
meow if it exported to XMI). That was my only point. If you're just
showing people something, it's export formats are vast.
The last time i looked at it, (more than a year ago) the argo UI
was horrible.
Indeed. But it exports to formats that can be used in other processes.
So i switched to Omnigraffle, that at least let's me draw the
diagram the way i want them to be.
And then i code the (Java) classes by hand.
Not round trip, for me, as a SW architect, code generation is
second to getting the right kind of diagrams to explain my design.
If you're doing large systems, that would get kind of old. Especially
since there is really no need to write a bunch of stub class files by
hand. It's seems like a waste of time to me. But I fully agree with
the getting the design right (auto generating the stub class allows
for quick design testing too)
When you export the omnigrfle file as HTML map you can define
actions for objects that would open a file by URL so one could use
the diagram in the SW documentation with clickable links to various
doc files.
Never tried doing this, though.
It's great for documentation, designing, or getting your thoughts
down, and again it's what I use when architecting.
If you want anything more than "look at this picture" than it's
lacking - was my only point. It's a great product.
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