Case tool

OS owensavill at compuserve.com
Wed Nov 29 22:30:38 GMT 2000


Hello,

It's not fully ready yet but keep an eye on Argo UML (see 
http://argouml.tigris.org/). It doesn't do sequence diagrams yet, they chose 
to do activity diagrams instead !!! Sequence diagrams are being done at the 
moment.

Owen

On Wednesday 29 November 2000 10:17 pm, you wrote:
> I just tested out MagicDraw.
>
> First thing, it looks nice. Installation was flawless. Sure, I had to
> manually edit the .sh file, but I can do that, I'm a developper! Never
> mind that it asked me for a path to my JVM to start with and then it
> just didn't use it... I can manage...
>
> Here's what I have now...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> JAVA_HOME=/opt/IBMJava2-13
> MD_HOME=/home/lemire/MagicDrawUML3.6iProfessional
>
> $JAVA_HOME/jre/bin/java -mx200M -Dinstall.root=$MD_HOME -cp
> $MD_HOME/lib/md.jar
> md.Main -D$MD_HOME $*
>
>
> Ok, check the last line... Now, that's scary... the "-mx200M" is
> probably going to be ignored... it should read -Xmx200m I think... (they
> are using the old and now obselete syntax...) but what it means should
> be clear to all. The developpers except this monster to eat up 200
> Megs!!!!!!!!!
>
> That's funny because they advertise 64 Megs of total memory as a
> requirement on their Web site... Now, 200 Megs for this sole application
> means that the real requirement is around 256 Megs... Why lie?
>
> Then, you have this strange interface where you don't exactly know what
> to do... Fine, I'll start a new project. Ok, that was easy.
>
> So far, so good. Some glitches... but that's ok for beta software...
> Wait... this thing isn't beta! And it costs 500$$$$$!!!!! At that kind
> of price, I shouldn't have to edit the .sh file... but ok... if the
> product works, it will be worth it!
>
> Now, I have this Java source code I picked up... I go to tools then
> "quick reverse". I've got then two dialog boxes I cannot close. One
> telling me I must  create "code engineering sets" whatever that is... On
> the second dialog, there appears to be a file dialog where I can select
> files and one "code engineering set" called "default (java)". That's
> fine since I just want to use it for Java (guess it won't work on C++
> though!). Ok, so, I cannot close any dialog, I may as well select some
> source file... I select one at random and I click on "add".
>
> That's it. End of testing. I've got two dialog windows I cannot close
> and the main window is now locked up.
>
>
> I would rather use Together any day.
>
> Problem is... Together is not stable and uses too much memory...
>
> makefiles. I'm sorry, but under Linux... you don't go much further than
> that...
>
> Anybody has got something better?

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