We have several IDEs in the cloud such as:
(Update: How’s the timing? This blog post was written one day before Dion and Ben announced Bespin, the massively important open-source project to build an IDE in the cloud among many other things. Needless to say, Bespin has been added to the list!)
I would like to see more tools for UML tools to complement these online IDEs. I’m not talking about naieve enterprise silliness like model-driven architecture; I mean just some basic tools ot support basic sketching.
So here is a nice one Jeremy showed me: Web Sequence Diagrams. It’s based on a declarative text spec of the model, rather than endless, tedious, mouse clicking. A perfect example of the WYWSIWN (what you see is what you need) paradigm trumping WYSIWYG. Just a nice, simple, tool that lets you generate UML models in a matter of minutes, the most any agile practitioner would want to spend on them.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Andreas Herz // Feb 11, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Hi,
maybe the draw2d is a good starting point
for a online UML tool.
A very basic implementation are available.
http://draw2d.org/draw2d/node/103
Greetings
2 Jonathan Lister // Mar 11, 2009 at 12:08 pm
What an awesome tool! I love the WYSIWYN acronym too.
3 NotACat // May 8, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I tried to look at the examples you gave, only to discover that CodeIDE seems to have been usurped by something called “Siteheart”. This seems to be mostly concerned with getting money out of visitors rather than anything to do with coding. Thought you might like to know…
4 mahemoff // May 12, 2009 at 10:51 am
Thanks NatACat. It’s also a good reminder for me to add Bespin to the list.
Leave a Comment