uml round-trip engineering

UML Tool

UML tool is an application that supports various semantics and notation related to unified modeling language [1] . Round trip engineering refers modeling tools capability to generate code from the model and vice versa . Altova UMODEL is a UML tool that supports round trip engineering capability [2] . The various features of Altova UMODEL tool are as follows : It supports modeling of UML diagrams in an easy way by increasing the convenient features and visual interface in the software Efficiency and productivity of the tool can be increased by customizing various

options provided by the software . Umodel supports rich graphic elements and uml diagrams are customizable by color , size , position etc layered structure is supported by Umodel tool for drawing the uml diagrams[2] . Navigation procedure is very ease by providing navigation window in the left pane of the software . All the 14 types of UML diagrams ( Use case diagram , activity diagram , class diagram communication diagram , component diagram , composite directory diagram package diagram , object diagram , sequence diagram , state diagram , timing diagram , pro diagram , business process diagram and xml schema including XML schema can be produced using Umodel tool [3]

Application source code can also be generated in various languages like Java , C and Visual basic . Documenting the project is very easier with help of Umodel tool . Umodel have an option to integrate with programming packages like visual studio and eclipse . It follows XMI 2 .1 interchange standards for uml diagrams used and exchanged using Umodel [2] . The various functions supported by...