--- Joe Fish wrote:

I taught a class on UML / Introductory Java a few years back, and, since it was an intro class, fielded a lot of questions about UML tools.

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OTOH, there's also a F/OSS project to create a more complex and full-featured CASE tool loosely based on UML / the Rational Process here.http://freshmeat.net/projects/argouml/I looked at, and installed, this one as well, but found it to be quite a bit more work -- it's more like a UML process-development tool than anything (ie, very flexible, but a steep learning curve -- and a lot of setup time, AFAICT, even if you already are familiar with it.)

Yeah, I installed argouml. Doesn't do what I need it to. THere looks like an add in for doing db schemas, but not out of the box.

I wanted to find a full-fledged UMl tool, but my specific need was to build a db schema with E/R diagram. None of the tools I've looked at have an actual db graphic. The best I can hope for is to use a UML class tool. Or use something like Gimp and draw boxes and then add lines to seperate out the table names and fields. It would have been nice to have a tool to generate the SQL also. There seem to be some experimental add-ins to dia to do this, but I don't see any debian packages for it.

Brian D.

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