Uml Software

A list of UnifiedModelingLanguage (UML) software (or UML tools), in alphabetic order. Every tool is listed by it's name, followed by a short description and an external link to the homepage (if available).

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ArgoUml -- OpenSource JavaLanguage tool
CadifraUmlEditor -- Commercial UML diagram editor for Windows 2000 and XP. Fast and lightweight. Unlimited undo/redo. Can embed into Microsoft Word (and others). No code generation. -- http://www.cadifra.com
Dia -- Open source, GPL'd (IIRC) graph editor targeting Visio-like functionality. --DanMoniz
EnterpriseArchitect (EA) -- Reasonably priced - looks robust.
MagicDraw -- Cheap-ish JavaLanguage tool; round-trip code generation, custom team development server for a price.
OmondoUml -- An EclipseUmlPlugin, free version available, integrates nicely in Eclipse.
Poseidon -- Based on ArgoUml, has free -non-commercial- Community Edition and commercial Standard/Professional Editions. Community Edn. constantly crashed on XP when I used it!
- Poseidon has now Version 3 and it is much stabler then the first versions, give it a try: http://www.gentleware.com --JanTietjens?
RationalRose -- more expensive than it's worth?
Rhapsody -- http://www.ilogix.com/rhapsody/rhapsody.cfm
SDE for Eclipse -- An UML plugin for Eclipse -- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/sdeec.php
SofteamObjecteering -- people seem to like it
TogetherSoft -- looks like a complete development environment rather than just a UML tool
UmLet -- simple tool for quickly sketching out small diagrams
Visio Stencil and Template for UML 2.0 - by Pavel Hruby -- http://www.phruby.com/stencildownload.html
VisualParadigm for UML -- http://www.visual-paradigm.com/vpuml.php

Other lists of UML software:

Cetus Links, OOA & OOD tools -- http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_ooa_ood_tools.html -- no longer updated.
"My Little UML Page" - by Michael W. Godfrey -- http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/uml.html
Objects by Design
- by platform -- http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byPlatform.html
- by price -- http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byPrice.html
oose.de -- http://www.oose.de/umltools.htm
Open Directory -- http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Methodologies/Modeling_Languages/Unified_Modeling_Language/Tools/
Programmers Heaven.com - UML Tools -- http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone16/cat666/
Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UML_tools

See: IdealUmlCaseTool; UmlSoftwareDiscussion

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