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Visual Paradigm for UML Viewer Edition (VP-UML VE)
Visual Paradigm for UML Viewer Edition is a free edition, designed for browsing and navigating the models and diagrams created with Visual Paradigm Products. It is extremely useful when you want to share your ideas of your projects with clients, partners, or colleagues, who do not have a copy of VP-UML.
Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition (VP-UML CE)
Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition is designed for developers working on non-commercial projects. It is free-of-charge and yet it provides incredible features! VP-UML CE contains all of VP's powerful UML diagramming capabilities, including —  full UML 2.1 support (all 13 latest UML diagrams), extensibility features (support plug-ins, images Import, and Shape Editor for custom notations design) —  basic printing functionality, everlasting notations and diagrams (Robustness Analysis, ER diagram and more) as well as image export and printing, such as printed hardcopies or popular image file formats. Some features not even provided by commercial UML tools are offered here in the FREE Community Edition such as sophisticated Requirements Engineering tools and Automatic Diagram Layout, as well as the requisite Requirements Analysis tools including CRC and textual analysis. Furthermore, tidy up your complex diagrams through the sophisticated automatic layout function with just a few mouse clicks! So many good features, too little space to describe them all here! Don't wait, get a FREE copy today!
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Visual Paradigm for UML Personal Edition (VP-UML LE)
The Visual Paradigm for UML Personal Edition contains all of features and functionalities as the Community Edition but with limitations removed (i.e. user can create more than one diagram/ per diagram type / per project). There will be a single watermarked label of the user name in the top-left corner of a printed diagram to indicate the edition is only for personal purposes. Note: Both Community and Personal Editions print a watermarked label at the top-left corner of exported images and printouts. However the Community Edition can only create one diagram per diagram type per project. For example, you CAN create one Class Diagram, one Use Case Diagram and one Sequence Diagram, but NOT two Class Diagrams and one Use Case Diagram within a project.
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Visual Paradigm for UML Modeler Edition (VP-UML ME)
The Visual Paradigm for UML Modeler Edition contains all the features and functionalities as the Personal Edition but with the above limitation removed and no watermark when exporting or printing diagrams. For the Modeler Edition and above, you can enrich notation beyond UML 2.1 by designing your own custom shapes with Visio integration or using the Visio stencil's import capability. Teamwork support is also enabled in this edition. This facilitates a wide range of users (IT and non IT professionals) to use different mixtures of VP's products and editions and to work on the same project concurrently and collaboratively. The VP-UML ME also provides documentation generation in PDF and HTML format (other higher editions support also MS Word Report Generation) and your design can be freely distributed to your clients for browsing with the free-of-charge VP-UML Viewer.
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Visual Paradigm for UML Standard Edition (VP-UML SE)
The Standard Edition contains all of the Modeler Edition's features and adds to them an additional set of powerful code generation engines which support over 10 programming languages for forward and reverse code engineering. Your development team can also work on the same project collaboratively and concurrently with our Teamwork Server, CVS and Subversion, even if your team is distributed in different locations around the world. The floating license server let you minimize your development budget and maximize the ROI. Share and exchange your ideas with VP's excellent interoperability by using: XMI, IBM Rose, BPEL & ERwin project/file Imported, Report Generator and the free-of-charge project viewer. Starting from the Standard Edition, the Documentation Generator offers a wider set of popular file formats including PDF, MS Word, HTML and your design can be published through the Automatic Project Publisher in rich and interactive HTML format. An ad-hoc Report Creator allows you to generate a selected set of model elements and diagrams quick & dirty. The powerful forward and reverse code engines provide extensive support for over 10 programming languages; enabling developers generate code from models or vice-versa.
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Visual Paradigm for UML Professional Edition (VP-UML PE)
The Professional Edition is built on the Standard Edition's capabilities by providing extensive support in round-trip code engineering, leading IDE integrations and automated visual database applications development processes. Round-trip code engineering enables the models and the code to keep in sync, regardless of the changes made on either side (model or code). To best facilitate the model-driven approach, VP-UML is integrated with most of the leading IDEs in the market for enabling software developers to better the entire model-code-deploy lifecycle process without any hassle. No more tedious JDBC programming! Visually developed database applications are now no longer a dream with visual object-relational mapping. Developers can now access a wide range of relational databases as you manipulate any Plain Old Java Objects (POJO) and we take care of the rest. It is also fully compatible with Hibernate. (Note that: .Net and PHP languages' support for visual object-relational mapping is also available in the Enterprise Edition or DB-VA .NET and DB-VA PHP Editions)
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Visual Paradigm for UML Enterprise Edition (VP-UML EE)
The Visual Paradigm for UML Enterprise Edition is an award-winning product representing the most powerful and best value visual modeling product in the market, combining the functionalities of all Editions into a comprehensive & all-in-one visual modeling platform. VP-UML EE is the ultimate solution for all your modeling needs. VP-UML EE in addition to the powerful UML modeling and code engineering capabilities available in the Professional Edition, provides business process modeling and comes with a smart visual object-relational mapper for Java, .NET and PHP. It covers much wider spectrum of the activities to be carried out within the software development lifecycle and for your everyday software development needs. VP's supreme BPM modeling capabilities helps you quickly and easily document your business processes to reduce costs and increase productivity, using the simple, OMG-standardized Business Process Management Notation (BPMN). It also generates XML and BPEL codes that can be shared, used and executed by many applications. Its supreme editing capabilities let you experience a true zero learning curve, making diagramming a enjoyable task and as a result, compressing your development time frame and maximizing your ROI.
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