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Software Development Magazine gives annual awards to popular software development tools in various categories. In 2003 ArgoUML was a finalist in the "Design and Analysis Tools" category. It received a runner-up award, beating many commercial tools.

However, as of version 0.20, ArgoUML does not conform completely to the UML standard^[1] and is lacking full support for some diagram types including sequence diagrams^[2]. The release 0.24 was described as a bug fix release solving the most serious problems in version 0.22, for a total of 172 bug fixes^[3]. Example of a UML 2 diagram The well-known Message Sequence Chart technique has been incorporated into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram under the name of Sequence Diagram. ...

Amusingly, Argo development has suffered from poor design. "Undo" has been a perpetually requested feature since 2003.

Releases

Previous stable releases:

• 0.10.1 (July 2002)
• 0.12 (October 2002)
• 0.14 (August 2003)
• 0.16.1 (August 2004)
• 0.18.1 (April 2005)
• 0.20 (February 2006)
• 0.22 (August 2006)
• 0.24 (February 2007, current)

Features

New Features in v0.20:

• UML 1.4 - Enhanced extensibility features of UML 1.4
• Sequence Diagrams
• AndroMDA compatibility
• Quality - Hundreds of bugs have been fixed
• Most functions now support Multiple selection of modelelements
• Drag and Drop from the explorer tree into the diagram and within the explorer tree

Other Features:

• All 9 UML 1.4 Diagrams supported
• Platform Independent: Java 1.4+
• 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, PGML 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, PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby and, with less mature modules, Ada, Delphi and SQL)
• Reverse Engineering / Jar/class file Import
• Cognitive Support
  • Reflection-in-action
    • Design Critics
    • Corrective Automations (partially implemented)
    • "To Do" List
    • User model (partially implemented)
  • Opportunistic Design
    • "To Do" List
    • Checklists
  • Comprehension and Problem Solving
    • Explorer Perspectives
    • Multiple, Overlapping Views

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Weaknesses

• No undo feature.
• Models sometimes cannot not be re-opened. Incrementally save-as-copy.
• No self-calls in sequence diagrams
• Must create a class diagram to be able to create a sequence diagram.

See also

• List of UML tools
• Poseidon for UML - a commercial descendant of ArgoUML
• ATL - an open source QVT language able to transform UML models produced by Argo/Poseidon
• StarUML - StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform.

This article lists Unified Modeling Language tools, classified by their proprietary or non-proprietary status. ... Poseidon for UML is a software application used to create models with the Unified Modeling Language. ... ATL is a QVT model tranformation language developed at INRIA. It can be used to do Syntactic or Semantic translation. ... In the model-driven architecture, QVT (Queries/Views/Transformations) is a standard for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group. ... StarUML logo StarUML Website StarUML Screenshot About StarUML StarUML[1] is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. ...

References

1. ^ UML Specification Incompatibility list. ArgoUML documentation.
2. ^ Chapter 19. Limitations Concerning Sequence Diagrams in ArgoUML. ArgoUML documentation.
3. ^ ArgoUML announcements. ArgoUML documentation.

External links

• Official ArgoUML website