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Apr 23, 2007

ArgoUML

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http://argouml.tigris.org/

Summary A UML design tool with cognitive support
Category design
License BSD License
Owner(s) boger, jrobbins, linus, mkl

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ArgoUML's user interface is divided into 4 panels:
Top left: a hierarchical view of the current project file.
Top right: editor for the selected part of the project, in this case a class diagram.
Bottom left: the designer's "to do" list.
Bottom right: details of the selected object in the diagram or the selected "to do" item.

Supported diagrams:

  • Class
  • State
  • Use case
  • Activity
  • Collaboration
  • Deployment
  • Sequence

Learn more on the ArgoUML tour.

Commercial Extensions

ArgoUML is licensed under the BSD license which also allows extensions to be commercialized.

The company Gentleware offers such an extension under the name Poseidon for UML.
A Community Edition is offered free of charge.

The MyEclipse UML modeling is also based on ArgoUML.

For Developers of ArgoUML

ArgoUML is not only a free UML modelling tool, it is also an Open Source Development project where you are invited to contribute.

Go to the Developer Zone to read about the project and to find the documentation of the internals of ArgoUML.