ArgoUML is a UML diagramming application written in Java and released under the open source BSD License. By virtue of being a Java application, it is available on any platform supported by Java.

In 2003, ArgoUML won the Software Development Magazine's annual Readers' Choice Award in the "Design and Analysis Tools" category.^[1]

ArgoUML does not yet completely implement the UML standard^[2] and is lacking full support for some diagram types including sequence diagrams.^[3] 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.^[4]

ArgoUML development has suffered from lack of manpower. "Undo" has been a perpetually requested feature since 2003.

Releases

Previous stable releases:

• first published: April 1998
• 0.7.0 (April 1999)
• 0.8.1a (October 2000)
• 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 since v0.20:

• Critics browser improvements.
• Show text edit boxes (for Associations etc.) when selected.
• Support for DataTypes, Stereotypes and Enumerations on the diagram.
• Clear grid selection and snap.
• Support for CallStates, ObjectFlowStates.
• Allow drawing Statechart diagrams without selecting a class first.
• UML 1.4 ? Enhanced extensibility features of UML 1.4.
• AndroMDA compatibility.
• Quality ? Hundreds of bugs have been fixed.
• Most functions now support multiple selection of model elements.
• Drag and drop from the explorer tree into the diagram and within the explorer tree.

Other features:

• All 9 UML 1.4 diagrams supported.
• Closely follows the UML standard.
• Platform independent ? Java 1.5+.
• 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.

Weaknesses

• No undo feature.
• Sequence diagrams do not function very well.
• No support for UML 2.x

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 for the UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform.
• OpenBlueLab ? an open source ERP that use ArgoUML to create directly the portal configured by use case diagram and class diagram.
• OMF OpenBlueLab Modeling Framework ? a subproject of OpenBlueLab that permits the transformation ArgoUML files into an ECORE file (for class diagrams) and into a file which conforms to our meta-model (for use case diagrams). The goal is to convert ArgoUML files to a specific format compatible with TopCased.

References

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External links

• Official ArgoUML website

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