Comments on: starUML and argoUML – compared

By: Nigel Deans

Nigel Deans — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:33:37 +0000

I’ve used ArgoUML for a few years – hard to believe is STILL isn’t developed entirely. I love the fact that it’s free to use at it’s fullest capacity but I can’t get over it’s ugliness. I much prefer the style of the diagrams in other products that I usually wind up using instead. Last year I was using the community edition of Visual Paradigm, which I love but I hate the watermarks… This year I’m using StarUML, which I think is the best unobstructed and free UML tool I’ve found yet.

I keep going back to ArgoUML because of it’s popularity – maybe I’m missing something. Which is how I got here. Overall, I have to say ArgoUML is good, but for me StarUML rules – now if they can just export to SVG I would never have to look for anything else.

By: Veera

Veera — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:48:32 +0000

have heard about BoUML. need to give it a try.

By: Michal Slonina

Michal Slonina — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:34:33 +0000

VP cons:
- free version doesn’t do uml code conversion

The best UML tool around for me is BoUML.
Pros:
- free/open souce
- solid
- fast
- UML 2.0
- good UMLcode round-trip
- packages for almost every linux distro.

By: danny0085

danny0085 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:22:05 +0000

VP Suite 4.1 for Linux

http://tips-linux.net/en/content/visual-paradigm-suite-41-linux-license

By: Byron

Byron — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:27:31 +0000

I don’t understand why anyone would recommend a UML tool that fails to parse valid syntax during reverse engineering. It’s one thing if additional features such as generics are discarded by the reverse engineering feature. But StarUML completely discards a class when it encounters any generics in the code. This makes the reverse engineering feature totally unusable.

Generics have been around for 5 years now, and current applications commonly make use of it. I have generics in nearly all my java code. StarUML should be considered obsolete until generics are at least recognized by the parser. Meanwhile, I’ll be looking for another UML tool.

By: Veera

Veera — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:23:44 +0000

Hi Fidelis, I'm not sure about this error. Must be an program. StarUML forum might be able to help you out.

By: fidelis

fidelis — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:57:59 +0000

Hi!
Has you tried exporting a .uml project to XMI in starUML. I have made a Sequence Diagrams in starUML. I am trying to convert the .uml into XMI, but I am getting an error.

“Access Violation at address 053XXXXXXX in module XMIAddIn.dll. Read of Address 00000000.”

Any suggestions?

Thanx.

By: daemyo

daemyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:37:45 +0000

I’ve been using StarUML for 3 years now, I;m just starting on ArgoUML.
as of ArgoUml 0.28 -
– there is still no undo feature,
– I find it very easy to create diagrams
– Rich in features, Todo list, object properties.
– Code Generation is pretty good. (C#)
– GUI-I LIKE!!
Maybe its missing some visual options that StarUML have, like for INTERFACE, when I want to show a Circle and half Circle for dependency and realization.

I Always loved StarUML (even over visio, dont ask why) but I think I’ll move on to ArgoUML because its still evolving while all development for StarUML had stopped.

BTW, nobody is thanking the developers. So in behalf of those who benefit from these free application. THANKS!

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:48:33 +0000

Just to add my voice to the choir:
The problem is not that StarUML does not run on linux, but that it *only* runs on windows. The other way around would not help a bit.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:09:42 +0000

StarUML looks interesting. Like many said, it’s delivered as a Windows binary only. But it’s Open Source so I’ll see if I can get it to compile under Linux…

That would give me another UML modeling tool to review