[Uml-user] RfC: umbrello-plugin for KDevelop?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:33:59PM +0100, Sven Bauhan wrote:

> I talked to a collegue about software development with UML. We came to the 
> conclusion that the main problem about uml-tools is that do not work together 
> with the IDE.
> Some time ago I had the idea to edit the source code directly in umbrello, 
> which is restraintly possible in umbrello yet.
> So why writing a new source code editor when we can use the one from 

This has been suggested various times in the past.  There is also a
beastie entry
 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64241

The problems are firstly that synchronising between code and UML model
is a hard problem in general, there's just too many things that are
not clearly defined.  Secondly that KDevelop's code model does not
include a many of the features used by UML and Umbrello.  Thirdly it's
just a heck of a lot of work.  Also people will still want Umbrello as
a stand alone application so it needs to be done in clever ways that
allow that.

Jonathan Riddell