About Visual Paradigm for UML

Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) is a powerful, cross-platform and yet the most easy-to-use visual UML modeling and CASE tool. VP-UML provides software developers the cutting edge development platform to build quality applications faster, better and cheaper! It facilitates excellent interoperability with other CASE tools and most of the leading IDEs which excels your entire Model-Code-Deploy development process in this one-stop-shopping solution.

UML modeling

You can draw all kinds of UML 2.x diagrams in VP-UML, which include:

• Class diagram
• Use case diagram
• Sequence diagram
• Communication diagram
• State machine diagram
• Activity diagram
• Component diagram
• Deployment diagram
• Package diagram
• Object diagram
• Composite structure diagram
• Timing diagram
• Interaction overview diagram

Requirement modeling

Capture requirements with SysML Requirement Diagram, Use Case Modeling, Textual Analysis, CRC Cards, and create screen mock-up with User Interface designer.

Database modeling

You can draw the following kinds of diagrams to aid in database modeling:

• Entity Relationship Diagram
• ORM Diagram (visualize the mapping between object model and data model)

You can model not only database table, but also stored procedure, triggers, sequence and database view in an ERD.

Besides drawing a diagram from scratch, you can reverse engineer a diagram from an existing database.

Apart from diagramming, you can also synchronize between class diagram and entity relationship diagram to maintain the consistency between them.

SQL generation ane execution feature is available for producing and executing SQL statement from model instantly.

Business process modeling

You can draw the following kinds of diagrams to aid in business process modeling:

• Business process diagram
• Data flow diagram
• Event-drive process chain diagram
• Process map diagram
• Organization Chart

You can also export Business process diagram to BPEL.

Object-Relational mapping

Object-Relational Mapping enables you to access relational database in an object relational approach when coding. VP-UML generates object-relational mapping layer which incorporates features such as transaction support, pluggable cache layer, connection pool and customizable SQL statement.

Team collaboration

For users that work as a team, team collaboration support lets you perform modeling collaboratively and concurrently with any one of the following tools or technologies:

• VP Teamwork Server (Need to buy Visual Paradigm Teamwork Server additionally)
• CVS
• Subversion
• Perforce
• ClearCase

Documentation generation

Share your design with your customers in popular document formats, including:

• HTML (report generation)
• HTML (project publisher)
• PDF
• Word