[oclug] standard file format for UML diagrams

[Rod Giffin]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 22:16, Roger Messier wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 20:38:41 -0400 (EDT) Kirill Lisovsky <lisovsky at acm.org>
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Roger Messier wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone know if there's a standard file format to save UML diagrams?  I'm
> > > working on a group project for a course and we need to draw many UML
> > > diagrams but we're using incompatible programs to create them (It doesn't
> > > help that the other three are on Windows and I'm on Linux).  If there was a
> > > standard file format for UML, and if there were both Windows and Linux
> > > applications that can work with the format, it would our lives much simpler.
> > 
> > XMI may be considered as such a OMG standard
> > 
> > It's supported by some Win/Lin tools,
> > such as Java-based ArgoUML
> > http://argouml.tigris.org/
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  ArgoUML looks like it could do the job.  I just have to figure out why
> it won't run when I do 'java -jar argouml.jar' as it says to do in the docs.

Likely there's something wrong with your java environmental variables. 
Is $JAVA_HOME set on your system, and is there a valid lib (eg. with
tools.jar in it) in $JAVA_HOME?  Also, $JAVA_HOME/bin needs to be in
your path.

Just because it's related, and quite a lot more sophisticated, I use
Poseiden for UML from Gentleware.  There is a free community edition,
but Poseiden is the commercial edition of ArgoUML.  Poseiden also has a
web based interface, and there are also plugins for Netbeans/Sun One,
and Eclipse which I've used for both development and reverse
engineering.

Rod.