UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 5/2/06, Gayn Winters <gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com> wrote:
> > From: Pietro Cerutti [mailto:pietro.cerutti at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:55 AM
> > To: gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com; FreeBSD
> > Subject: Re: UML editor on FreeBSD - need recommendation
>
> > On 5/2/06, Gayn Winters <gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com> wrote:
> > > Would anyone please recommend a graphical UML editor to run
> > on FreeBSD?
> > > I'd install an appropriate GUI for it.
> >
> > Personally, I use Poseidon from Gentleware.
> > You can find it in the ports system under java/poseidon.
>
> > > Ideally it would support UML 3.0 and the emerging system engineering
> > > profile SysML.
> >
> > As stated at http://www.uml.org/, the latest UML standard is 2.0. Am I
> > missing something?
> > I think Poseidon doesn't support SysML at the moment.
>
> Thanks!  My error.  UML 2.0 is the latest.  I'm not sure about the
> latest version of XMI for interchange; however, googling for << SysML
> Poseidon >> gets several hits that seem to indicate that Poseidon can
> import an XMI description of SysML, and hence it will support SysML. (I
> don't understand how graphics are interchanged.) This is probably true
> for any UML editor that is keeping up with UML and XMI, but I'm learning
> as I go.  See for example,
> http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~esukpc20/exff2005_05/exff_legacy/docs/sy
> sml_ap233_assembly.html

I'm not an expert in those things, I'm just an end-user, sorry...

>
> I assume the port java/poseidon is the "community edition" of Poseidon,
> i.e. the free and somewhat stripped down edition.

You can choose your edition at `make configure` time

> (http://gentleware.com/edcompare.0.html) I take it you find it adequate.
> Does the port depend on any particular GUI?  Is the performance ok under
> FreeBSD's Java?

No, AFAIK Poseidon it's completely written in Java, so it depends only
on java (=> 1.4)
The performance could be improved. In deed, it takes quite a long time
to load, but once running it's quite fast...

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