The Altova UML tool for software modeling and application development keeps getting better and better, with recently launched UModel Version 2008 Release 2 adding exciting new features including support for business process diagrams in BPMN notation, code engineering support for Java 6.0, C# 3.0, and Visual Basic 9.0, diagram layers, enhanced auto-completion, and much more.
We can’t wait to see how users take advantage of the new layers feature:
In UModel 2008 Release 2 you can assign each diagram element to a specific layer and set each layer to be hidden or visible. Just imagine how you could take advantage of layers to build simplified views within complex activity diagrams, state machine diagrams that contain superstates and substates, to identify the roles of different parties in business process diagrams, or in virtually any UML diagram that grows to more than two dozen or so elements!
4 comments:
Great stuff - any news on when you will add sequence diagram generation ? (from code and/or debug/profile traces).
Currently this is the only feature that keeps me using Sparx Enterprise Architect. I would love to switch since UModel diagram capabilities and easy interface makes me much more productive.
Lars: thanks for the feedback. We are actually already working on it and the next release (v2009) will have generation of sequence diagrams from code.
Is the Umodel compatible with BPMN 1.1? I don't see certain symbols that were introduced in that release
UModel 2008 supports BPMN 1.0. I've forwarded your comment on to our dev team. Thank you!
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