Using UML modeling your designers can focus on the design of the application,
and your developers focus on the code.
Visual Paradigm: SDE for NetBeans
Looking to do more with UML in the NetBeans IDE?
The SDE for NetBeans
from Visual Paradigm provides a wide range
of enterprise class features including:
The NetBeans UML plugin is available from the Plugin Manager (Tools > Plugins).
Forward and Reverse Engineering
Designers and analysts design applications using the UML modeling language,
then developers generate Java code from the UML model.
You can also update the model from changes made in the source code.
Generated source code can be saved into new source files
or merged into existing source code files
providing full round-trip engineering capability.
Your collection types are preserved
during Forward and Reverse Engineering and may be set and changed.
UML Diagrams
The NetBeans UML plugins presently supports the following UML diagrams:
Activity diagram, Class diagram, Sequence diagram, State diagram,
and Use Case diagram.
You can align diagrams visually in the Diagram Editor,
Drag and drop roles, patterns and classes from simplified Modeling Palette
and add relationships from the Context Palette.
The UML plugins uses the NetBeans Visual Library, making it completely open source.
Customizable Code Generation
The NetBeans UML plugin provides template-based code generation for Forward Engineering.
Modify the FreeMaker templates included with the NetBeans IDE
to customize how code is generated.
Integrated UML Tools
Create Javadoc style web reports from your model
to share your work with colleagues.
There is a full set of predefined and extensible design patterns
including EJB 1.1, EJB 2.0 and Gang of Four.
