SDE for NetBeans

Perform UML modeling in your favorite Integrated Development Environment, SDE for NetBeans provides a one-stop-shopping solution which excels your entire Model-Code-Deploy development process.

 

NetBeans 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 NetBeans 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 NetBeans UML CASE tool which integrates with NetBeans seamlessly

 

SDE for NetBeans is a full-featured UML CASE tool that integrates with NetBeans 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 NetBeans will do it for you.

 

SDE for NetBeans provides seamless integration with the NetBeans IDE, the navigation between model and code is fast and simple. You don’t have to switch back and forth between NetBeans and the UML tool, which greatly increase the productivity of software development.

Figure 1 SDE for NetBeans provides seamless integration with the NetBeans IDE

Besides, SDE for NetBeans adopts the same user interface as NetBeans which reduces the learning curve, and you can perform UML modeling in your familiar working environment.

 

 

With SDE for NetBeans, 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 NetBeans

SDE for NetBeans 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.

Figure 3 Advanced diagramming features

The key benefit of using SDE for NetBeans 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 NetBeans projects to UML model and diagrams.

Figure 4 Round-trip code synchronization

 

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