OO tools

This page describes the software engineer's arsenal. It is not intended to go into detail as to what these encompass; however, it will allow suitable tools to be proposed.

UML

Round Trip Systems

* Together
* GreenUML - An eclipse plug in. A passable system for class diagrams, does not scale well. Produces some unexpected behaviour.

Static Systems

* Umbrello - A decent static system. Can generate most standard UML diagrams. Can import java classes one folder (i.e. package) at a time. Good at printing/exporting large diagrams. Linux ap, currently being ported to Windows & Mac. Can be found [1].

Editors

IDEs

• Eclipse
• Visual Studio
• Geany

Text Editors

• Notepad++

See Also

• Robert Cecil Martin 2003
• Martin Fowler 2003b