SDE for Eclipse
Perform UML modeling in your favorite Integrated Development
Environment, SDE for Eclipse provides a one-stop-shopping solution which excels
your entire Model-Code-Deploy development process.
Eclipse is a popular Integrated Development Environment for
Java, it allows you to edit, compile, deploy and test Java programs efficiently.
However, it lacks a full-featured UML modeling tool, which is particularly
essential for generating UML design documentation from the Eclipse project source
code.
You may try using a standalone UML CASE tool to help
modeling the software. But the price you’ll have to pay is to create the
UML models and diagrams from scratch, and update the design documentation
manually whenever the source code has changed. If there is a tool that can do
it for you automatically, faster and better, why bother doing it yourself?
SDE for Eclipse
UML CASE tool which integrates with Eclipse seamlessly
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SDE for Eclipse is a full-featured UML CASE tool that
integrates with Eclipse seamlessly. It allows intuitive UML diagram editing,
supports the latest UML notations, and provides round-trip code synchronization
from model to code and vice versa. You no longer need to worry about keeping
the source code and UML documentation synchronized, because SDE for Eclipse
will do it for you.
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SDE
for Eclipse provides seamless integration with the Eclipse IDE, the navigation between
model and code is fast and simple. You don’t have to switch back and
forth between Eclipse and the UML tool, which greatly increase the productivity
of software development.
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Figure 1 SDE for Eclipse provides seamless integration with the Eclipse IDE
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Besides, SDE for Eclipse adopts the same user interface as Eclipse,
which reduces the learning curve, and you can perform UML modeling in your
familiar working environment.
With SDE for Eclipse, UML modeling has been made easy by the
intuitive user interface, what-you-see-is-what-you-get diagram editing, UML
syntax checking on the fly, resource centric feature, realistic containment
effect and more.
Figure 2 Visual Modeling in SDE for Eclipse
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SDE
for Eclipse also provides advanced diagramming features to minimize the effort in
creating professionally-looking UML diagrams. These include solid/gradient fill
color, font, line style, configurable connection point and connector style, and
pin-enabled connector.
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Figure 3 Advanced diagramming features
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Round-Trip Code Synchronization
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The key benefit of using SDE for Eclipse is the round-trip
code synchronization support, which includes the code generation and code
reverse engineering process. You can easily generate Java source files from
UML model, and reverse existing Eclipse projects to UML model and diagrams.
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Figure 4 Round-trip code synchronization
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Code synchronization can be operated automatically, which means
the Java source and UML model are synchronized once changes are made. Or you
can choose to perform code synchronization on demand.
Figure 5 Generating Java source code from class model
Automatic Diagram Layout
Want to get rid of messy UML diagrams? The automatic diagram
layout will help. No matter how large and complicated your diagram is, SDE for
Eclipse will rearrange it neatly and quickly. And you can select from a set of
predefined layout styles to apply the one that is most suitable for the diagram
nature.
Got legacy projects in Rational Rose and other CASE tools? Just
migrate them to SDE for Eclipse. You can import the UML model and diagrams of a
Rational Rose project (mdl) file to SDE, instead of creating them again from
scratch. You can also export an XMI file from other CASE tools or applications
and import it into SDE.
Besides, a SDE project can be exported as an XMI file, which
can be used in other CASE tools including Rational Rose.
