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December 23, 2008
Full features UML plugin for NetBeans
Visual Paradigm Smart Development Environment (SDE) for NetBeans is a reliable award-winning modeling extension for NetBeans developers to dynamically perform visual modeling alongside code. In this release, SDE 4.4 Service Pack 1 for NetBeans supports the importing of UML diagrams from NetBeans 6.x to Visual Paradigm UML project presentation. Developing and modeling in your favorite Integrated Development Environment leads to increased productivity and streamlines your entire model-code-deploy software development process. Try now!

 
Visual Paradigm International, constantly updating and enhancing its award-winning products, today announced the new release of Smart Development Environment 4.4 Service Pack 1 with features that are not only new to Visual Paradigm, but some of these features are also completely new to the world of modeling tools.

In this release, the enhancements include: animate business process using Animacian, import Rational Software Architect DNX file and NetBeans 6.x UML diagrams, customizable program shortcuts, reduce diagram space by attracting shapes using Magnet, automatic word warp, transit entity relationship diagrams from conceptual to logical and from logical to physical, show/hide shapes by stereotype, creating stereotyped model type using diagram toolbar, preview local and server changes before commit or update, sharing design patterns with team members and full Gang of Four (GOF) Design Pattern support.
What's New?
Animate Business Process Using Animacian
Starting from VP Suite 3.4 Service Pack 1, we support a brand new feature for business process modeling, called Animacian. Animacian is a tool to help you make a process design active by presenting the flow in animation form. This can make your design more attractive by animating it.
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Preview Local and Server Changes before Commit or Update
When working collaboratively as a team, we often need to know how our work may affects the others work, or vice versa. Visual Paradigm team collaboration support lets you know the changes that will occur in project when attempting to committing or updating works. In this release, you also can preview the changes.
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Defining, Configuring and Applying Design Patterns
In VP Suite 3.4 Service Pack 1, there are lots of enhancements in our design pattern support, which gives you higher flexibility in defining patterns. For example, you can define cloneable classes as well as implementation hierarchies. With the enhancements, you can define and apply Gang of Four design patterns to designs effectively.
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Sharing Design Patterns with Team Members
In many development scenarios, we often need to reuse, refine, elaborate and transcribe an portion of diagram, known as a design patterns, during the development process or in between development phases. Design pattern can be defined by designing the pattern in a diagram, and saving it as a pattern file. Now, it can be shared across the team easily through the team collaboration support. Users in a team just need a few mouse actions to grab a pattern file created by another member, and reuse on their own design.
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Reduce Space by Attracting Shapes using Magnet
In a diagram, there may be gaps that make the diagram too loose and hard to read. To reduce those gaps, Magnet tool can be used. Magnet tool can be used to attract shapes, such that unnecessary spaces can be reduced.
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Word Wrap Support
With word wrap support, shape names are fit into the size of shapes and with line-break added. This ensures the names to show completely without ruining the diagram due to the long names.
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Transit Entity Relationship Diagrams from Conceptual to Logical, from Logical to Physical
There are three types of ERDs: the conceptual, the logical, and the physical, which support modeling of data in three levels of abstraction from conceptual data model to implementation of a specific database. Starting from this new release, Visual Paradigm allows transition between these three levels models as well as to support traceability between them. You may create Conceptual Model and refine it into a logical model that are independent on any DBMS.
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Customizable Program Shortcuts
Within any Visual Paradigm products, commands can be invoked by pressing certain keys in the keyboard, as shortcuts. For example, holding down the Ctrl modifier key with the 'S' key invokes the save command. Now, key bindings, which is the assignment of keys to commands, can be customized. This permits you to use the familiar keystroke for invoking commands in VP.
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Creating Stereotyped Model Type Using Diagram Toolbar
Stereotypes is extensibility mechanisms in UML which allows designers to extend the vocabulary of UML in order to create new model elements. By applying appropriate stereotypes in your model you can make the specification model comprehensible.
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Show / Hide Shapes by Stereotype
The Show and Hide Diagram Element feature was introduced in the previous version, allowed user to show only those elements on the diagram pane which they are interested for performing some operations more conveniently in a temporary state. In this release, the Show/Hide Diagram Element feature is enhanced to let you show or hide diagram elements that extend a particular stereotype.
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Import Rational Software Architect DNX file into Visual Paradigm
In this release, you can import .dnx file into Visual Paradigm to continue modeling. All diagrams, shapes and model information saved in the .dnx file will be imported.
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Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Enhancements
Publisher supported drill down effect for process (Process Map) and events (BPMN)
Supported setting encoding for Instant Reverse C++
Supported importing Erwin model definition as documentation
Supported importing Erwin notes as comments
Supported including DB column's unique value in generated reports
Set shape as master view moves model element to current view structure
Allowed dragging diagram from Model Explorer to diagram
Allowed defining name for URL reference
Supported operations' Raised Exceptions, Preconditions and Postconditions in Report Writer
Supported creating candidate of pool and lane in Textual Analysis
Enforce XML import not to overwrite project's master view assignment (unless a model element has no view defined)
Automatic select all classes involved in a design pattern after applying a pattern
Support using vector graphics for stereotypes icon
Supported Russian encoding for exporting image as PDF file
Supported displaying FK column information in HTML, PDF and Word report's Columns table under ERD
Bug Fixes
Fixed unable to remove linebreak in note content
Fixed unable to use generic resource of Pool to create connector with objects such as tasks, start events
Fixed drag and drop shape from Model Explorer wrongly set view as master view
Fixed cannot save Part location in Composite Structure Diagram
Fixed reopening project blackbox pool become no caption
Fixed publisher (New Engine) produce report with dead link for Activation page
Fixed cannot edit Callout if it is grouped with other shapes
Fixed resize lane may move contained task out of lane
Fixed missing caption for shapes in exported PNG (with background)
Fixed diagram crash when creating generalization from ORM Persistable class through resource centric interface
Fixed switching User Interface object's orientation not reroute attached connectors
Fixed dragging multiple classes to sequence diagram result in only 1 class being selected
Fixed unable to select protected operation as call message in Sequence Diagram
Fixed dragging Data Object into Pool may cause the Data Object to put behind the Pool
Fixed reopening project cause Entry and Exit detach from State
Fixed unable to set parent Lane if Pool is put inside a sub process diagram
Fixed publisher's new engine failed to generate textual analysis with appropriate line breaking
Fixed unable to select only to generate Use Case Details in PDF and HTML report
Fixed undo deletion of shapes not restore master view assignment
Fixed cannot reverse destructor in IR for C++
Fixed publisher's new engine failed to produce documentation that matches the old engine in terms of style
Fixed publisher old engine publish wrong documentation for gateway
Fixed SVN not work with German project name
Fixed creating return message not expand fragment accordingly
Fixed confirming editing on UI shapes by pressing Enter duplicates the last character of the UI shape's name
Fixed SDE-NB unable to convert Pool to subprocess
Fixed Z-order problem for text annotation
Fixed Instant Reverse C++ missing template information
Fixed layout cause fork and join in bad size
Fixed state Code generation twice results duplicated methods
Fixed from/to lazy loading option in association specification not saved
Fixed publisher output not apply UTF-8 as charset if published via new engine
Fixed diagram option 'Auto Fit Size' not work well on pasted models
Fixed mouse gesture cause invisible message flow to be created between task and pool
Fixed unable to publish project if selected not to generate documentation in model
Fixed wrongly generated field length for blob on DB2 when length is 0
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