[Uml-user] Further development of Umbrello?

[Wolfgang Keller]

>>>> is there any chance to see Umbrello integrated with for example KDevelop
>>>> for seamless round-trip development from/to UML? 
>>> 
>>> Integration with KDevelop is difficult, not least because their
>>> internal code model is different from ours and lacks some features we need.
>> 
>> OK, but it would still be great to be able to do round-trips from Umbrello
>> to KDevelop (or some other open-source development environment, KDevelop
>> was just an example) and back, doing the design in Umbrello and filling in
>> the code  in KDevelop that usually isn't automatically created from the
>> model.
>> 
>> Would this be possible some day?
> 
> Oliver said ones, the source code is the interface.

That's exactly what I meant. But obviously Umbrello must be "smart" enough
to update a model (not simply overwrite it) based on manual modifications
of the source code done in the external IDE. And, vice versa, if one
modifies the model, Umbrello should only update the automatically generated
parts of the code, not overwrite it. That is, there must be a way to make
Umbrello "distinguish" between those parts of the source code it
generates/modifies and those that the developer edits by hand.

Best regards

Wolfgang Keller