Papyrus is an

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

UML 2 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 m ...

tool based on

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and licensed under the EPL. It has been developed by the Laboratory of Model Driven Engineering for Embedded Systems (LISE) which is a part of the

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission or CEA ( French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and securit ...

( CEA-List). Papyrus can either be used as a standalone tool or as an Eclipse plugin. It provides support for Domain Specific Languages and

SysML The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications. It supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. S ...

. Papyrus is designed to be easily extensible as it is based on the principle of UML Profiles.

UML2

Papyrus is a graphical editing tool for UML2 as defined by OMG. Papyrus provides support for UML profiles. Every part of Papyrus may be customized: model explorer, diagram editors, property editors, etc.

SysML

Papyrus also provides a complete support to

in order to enable model-based system engineering. It includes an implementation of the

static profile and the specific graphical editors required for

UML-RT

A variant of Papyrus, Papyrus for Real Time (Papyrus-RT), implements UML-RT, a Domain Specific Language (DSL) designed for realtime embedded systems development.Papyrus for Real Time (Papyrus-RT) project at Eclipse
/ref> UML-RT is a UML-based variant of

Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling (ROOM) is a domain-specific language. ROOM was developed in the early 1990s for modeling Real-time systems. The initial focus was on telecommunications, even though ROOM can be applied to any event-driven real-tim ...

(ROOM).

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