Papyrus is an

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UML 2 tool based on

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and licensed under the EPL. It has been developed by the Laboratory of Model Driven Engineering for Embedded Systems (LISE) which is a part of the

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(

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). Papyrus can either be used as a standalone tool or as an Eclipse plugin. It provides support for

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and

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. Papyrus is designed to be easily extensible as it is based on the principle of UML Profiles.

UML2

Papyrus is a graphical editing tool for UML2 as defined by

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. Papyrus provides support for UML profiles. Every part of Papyrus may be customized: model explorer, diagram editors, property editors, etc.

SysML

Papyrus also provides a complete support to

in order to enable model-based system engineering. It includes an implementation of the

static profile and the specific graphical editors required for

UML-RT

A variant of Papyrus, Papyrus for Real Time (Papyrus-RT), implements UML-RT, a Domain Specific Language (DSL) designed for realtime embedded systems development.Papyrus for Real Time (Papyrus-RT) project at Eclipse
/ref> UML-RT is a UML-based variant of Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM).

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