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DiaGen and DiaMeta - Tools for the generation of diagram editors

Submitted by jordi on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 08:41
Today we have a guest post by Steffen Mazanek where he introduces the DiaGen and DiaMeta tools. Enjoy!

DiaGen and DiaMeta both are meta-tools (see figure below) for the generation of diagram editors. The project leader is Mark Minas from Universität der Bundeswehr München.

A new video for UMLtoDB - the online SQL code generation service

Submitted by jordi on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 23:56
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:

Industrialization of research tools: the ATL case

Submitted by jordi on Mon, 08/23/2010 - 19:08
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 - UML to Python Roundtrip Tool

Submitted by jordi on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 19:51

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 - From grammars to modeling languages

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 22:18
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 - A tool for design competitions

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 00:27
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.

Red Koda tool - Finish UML diagrams faster

Submitted by jordi on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 22:37

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).

AtomWeaver public beta also released this week

Submitted by jordi on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:04

Another tool launched in public beta this week is AtomWeaver developed by Rui Curado. AtomWeaver is a full implementation of ABSE (Atom-based Software Engineering) . Rui's own description of the system is the following:

AlphaSimple now in public beta

Submitted by jordi on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 14:50

Rafael Chaves who we already met in this interview about his TextUML textual UML modeling tool has just released AlphaSimple

Short introduction to the MoDisco Model-Driven Software Modernization Framework

Submitted by jordi on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 12:35
We have already mentioned ( here and here ) our MoDisco project (in short an extensible framework to develop model-driven reverse engineering tools to support software modernization).

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