Re: [vhdl-200x] Question on provision of UML tool with P1076c

I don't know if this will work for you, but the following is free and works
on Linux and Windows.
http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/
*StarUML - The Open Source UML/MDA Platform*
<https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=152825> StarUML is
an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful,
and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of
the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform
that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational
Rose, Together and so on.
For a screenshot :
https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=152825

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On 5/9/07, Peter Ashenden <peter@ashenden.com.au> wrote:
>
> Daniel,
>
> The MagicDraw Reader is available free of charge from the vendor's website
> (www.magicdraw.com). The Reader (as its name implies) just opens the UML
> model read-only, but it allows you to navigate and search quite nicely.
> The
> vendor also provides a free Community edition that lets you edit the class
> diagrams. Beyond that, you can pay for verious personal and enterprise
> editions with more functionality for other UML diagrams. However, given
> that
> we only include class diagrams in the VHPI information model, the
> Community
> edition is probably sufficient for 99% of what people would want to do.
>
> The information model is provided in the standard in XMI format. XMI is a
> standard XML representation of the model's structure, and should be
> readable
> with other UML tools. The problem is that XMI does not specify
> representation of the graphical layout of the class diagrams. That's
> handled
> as a vendor-specific extension, and so is not likely to be readable by
> other
> tools. When we developed the information model, there was no standard for
> the graphical representation. So having a freely available reader,
> together
> with facility to generate a web-browsable representation of the graphics,
> was a stong motivation behind choosing MagicDraw.
>
> I think your suggestion to archive the current distributions of the tools
> as
> an insurance policy makes good sense. We might suggest to the IEEE that
> they
> do so, even if they don't currently make the distributions available for
> download. I'll see if they are interested in doing that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PA
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Leu [mailto:daniel_leu@inicore.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 8:54 AM
> > To: Peter Ashenden
> > Subject: Re: [vhdl-200x] Question on provision of UML tool with P1076c
> >
> >
> > Hello Peter,
> >
> > >
> > > Second, they have concerns about distributing a commercial product.
> > > The
> > > issue is not one of permission, which has been given by the tool
> > > supplier.
> > > Rather, they are concerned about being perceived as endorsing a
> > > particular
> > > product. Our rationale for including the tool with the standard is
> > > that
> > > doing so mitigates the risk of future versions not being
> > compatible
> > > with the
> > > form in which we publish the information model, and the
> > risk of the
> > > tool
> > > supplier withdrawing the tool or going bust. None of these
> > is likely.
> > > However, as a wise man once said, confidence is that glowing
> > > feeling you get
> > > just before falling flat on your face!
> >
> > I don't think that this is an issue as long as the 'reader' is
> > available free of charge. Is the data format compatible with other
> > tools? Ideally would be to have the data files available in an open
> > format that is supported by several tools. I have no idea if such a
> > thing exist for UML tools.
> >
> > >
> > > The alternative proposed by the IEEE editor is to include a link to
> > > the tool
> > > supplier's website, so that people can download the tool for
> > > themselves. The
> > > link would would be accompanied by a statement that IEEE does not
> > > endorse
> > > this tool and that users are free to use equivalent tools. Would
> > > that be
> > > satisfactory?
> >
> > This sounds reasonable to me. Maybe one could archive the tools to
> > prevent an issue if the original downloads were no longer available.
> > Then Accellera or eda.org might jump in to host them.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> >
>
>
>
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