ArgoUML is an

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diagramming application written in Java and released under the open source

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. By virtue of being a

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application, it is available on any platform supported by

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History

ArgoUML was originally developed at

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by Jason E. Robbins, leading to his

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It was an open source project hosted by Tigris.org and moved in 2019 to GitHub. The ArgoUML project included more than 19,000 registered users and over 150 developers. In 2003, ArgoUML won the Software Development Magazine's annual Readers' Choice Award in the “Design and Analysis Tools” category. ArgoUML development has suffered from lack of manpower. For example, ''Undo'' has been a perpetually requested feature since 2003 but has not been implemented yet.

Features

According to the official feature list, ArgoUML is capable of the following: *All 9 UML 1.4 diagrams are supported. *Closely follows the UML standard. *Platform independent – Java 1.5+ and C++. *Click and Go! with Java Web Start (no setup required, starts from your web browser). *Standard UML 1.4 Metamodel. * XMI support. *Export diagrams as GIF, PNG, PS, EPS,

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and SVG. *Available in ten languages: EN, EN-GB, DE, ES, IT, RU, FR, NB, PT, ZH. *Advanced diagram editing and zoom. *Built-in design critics provide unobtrusive review of design and suggestions for improvements. *Extensible modules interface. * OCL support. *Forward engineering (code generation supports C++ and C#, Java, PHP 4, PHP 5, Ruby and, with less mature modules, Ada, Delphi and SQL). *Reverse engineering /

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/class file import.

Weaknesses

*ArgoUML does not yet completely implement the UML standard. * Partial undo feature (working for graphics edits Undo working for graphics edits (this is mostly a GEF addition).)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Argouml Java platform software Free UML tools 1999 software Software using the Eclipse license

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