JetUML is a
UML tool developed as a pure-
Java desktop application for educational and professional use.
The project was launched in January 2015 with a focus on
minimalist design.
The name JetUML relates to the primary goal of the tool, namely the quick sketching of diagrams in the
Unified Modeling Language (UML).
JetUML is a
free and open-source
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software licensed under the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
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History
The JetUML project was launched in January 2015 by Martin P. Robillard,
a professor of computer science at
McGill University. The original goal of the tool was to support the interactive sketching of
UML diagrams during lectures and software design sessions.
The initial source code was derived from the
Java Swing
Swing is a GUI widget toolkit for Java. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes (JFC) – an API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for Java programs.
Swing was developed to provide a more sophisticated set of GUI com ...
-based Violet UML application
[
] developed by Cay Horstmann, and then progressively rewritten to modernize it and focus solely on UML sketching. In winter 2018, the application was migrated to the
JavaFX GUI framework (Release 2.0).
In spring 2020 the application was converted to a
modular application (Release 3.0) and started to be distributed as a self-contained executable.
JetUML was used to create the hundred-plus UML diagrams in the book ''Introduction to Software Design with Java''.
Features
JetUML aims to sketch software design ideas with a
minimalist feature set.
It allows users to create, modify, and annotate the main
UML
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally ...
diagram types:
class,
sequence,
state,
object diagrams, and
use case. JetUML uses
UTF-8 encoding to share diagrams across systems including
Windows,
Linux, and
macOS.
JetUML saves diagrams in
JSON
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files and can export diagrams as images in various
graphic formats
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. JetUML does not collect or share any personal information from users.
Users can send feedback and report issues directly to the
open-source
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repository in
GitHub.
*No dependencies: without depending on any external
libraries, JetUML minimizes the
development and
maintenance cost.
*No
reflection: JetUML does not use any highly reflective
framework to enhance code readability.
*No
streaming
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: since JetUML involves few data-intensive operations, it avoids using
streams
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in the
interface of classes and limits the use of
stream
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API within the
method scope
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People with the surname
* Jamie Scope (born 1986), English footballer
* John T. Scopes (1900–1970), central figure in the Scopes Trial regarding the teaching of evolution
Arts, media, and entertainment
* CinemaS ...
.
*Well-Encapsulated: JetUML is designed to support the highest possible level of
encapsulation.
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Limitations
*Incomplete support for other
UML
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
The creation of UML was originally ...
diagram types.
See also
*
List of UML tools
*
Glossary of Unified Modeling Language terms
References
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External links
Source code repository
UML tools
Free UML tools
Eclipse (software)
Free and open-source software
Java platform software
Java (programming language) software