SDE for Eclipse CE for Java Platform Community Edition description
UML CASE tool for Eclipse - UML diagrams, reverse engineering, more...

SDE for Eclipse is a UML CASE utility that is completely integrated with Eclipse. It supports full software development lifecycle - analysis, design, implementation, testing and maintenance. It combines the power of UML modeling facilities and Eclipse.

It helps you build quality applications faster, better and cheaper. You can draw UML diagrams in Eclipse, generate Java code, reverse engineering Java code to class diagrams and generate documentation in PDF/HTML.

Here are some key features of "SDE for Eclipse CE for Java Platform Community Edition":

· Latest UML notation (use case diagram, sequence diagram, collaboration diagram, class diagram, state diagram, activity diagram, component diagram, deployment diagram and object diagram)
· Use case modeling (use case description, flow of events, scheduling and etc.)
· Textual analysis for finding candidate classes, use cases, actors, flow of event and etc.
· Business workflow diagram
· CRC card for finding objects
· Reverse engineering - code to model, code to diagram
· Code Generator - generate code, model to code, diagram to code
· Incremental round-trip engineering
· Automatic synchronization between source code and diagrams
· Template support (e.g. for generating XML, Javascript and SQL)
· Model validation
· Automatic diagram layout (e.g. rearrange classes in class diagrams automatically)
· Import Rational Rose project
· Import XMI/export XMI
· Export diagrams to image in PNG, JPG, SVG formats
· OLE support - draw UML diagrams in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel directly
· Generate report and documentation in HTML and PDF formats
· Version control
· Multilingual support
· Printing facilities

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