Now you can see a video of the UMLtoDB online generation service showing how easy is to generate your database schema from a simple UML model (only a class diagram is needed; forget about using stereotypes or ad hoc UML extensions).

See the video below:

Check this interview to the head of the MDE diploma (that should be me ) made by Xavier Seignard .

Research groups develop plenty of tools aimed at solving real industrial problems. Unfortunately, most of these tools remain as simple proof-of-concept tools that companies consider too risky to use due to their lack of proper user interface, documentation, completeness, usability, support, etc.

PyUML is an open source Eclipse plug-in offering round trip engineering betwee UML and Python.

PyUML is based on the PyDev (Python IDE for Eclipse) and Eclipse UML Tools plugins

GRA2MOL is a specially tailored DSL for extracting models from source code developed by Javier Luis Cánovas and Jesús García Molina from the Modelum group in Spain.

Most reverse engineering and software modernization processes require to extract some kind of models from the source code as a way to facilitate the understanding and/or manipulation of the legacy system.

TopCoder UML 1.2.5 has just been released .

TopCoder UML is "an easy to use, consistent modeling tool for use in Design and Development competitions" hosted at TopCoder , the world's largest community of competitive software developers.

One of the main complaints about graphical modeling notations is the poor usability of many of the modeling environments (argument used by proponents of textual modeling notations to claim that productivity with their tools is higher).