Jason Van Cleve wrote:
>Quoth M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:30:40 -0800:
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>>Someone already mentioned Poseidon, which IIRC is written in Java.
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>I remember this tool now. ArgoUML with pretty widgets, basically. It
>has a free version, actually, but for noncommercial use. This actually
>looks like a good product for what it does.
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>>templates cost money. I've never used Kivio. And ... there's Dia. Dia
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>Dia's not bad either, I was running that today. I'm not into the
>Gimp-like interface, so I'm thinking ArgoUML is better for me. I'm
>looking into Kivio.
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>>Just in case you're interested in database modeling, Dia also has an
>>add-on that does that, though I've forgotten what it's called. And
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>As a matter of fact, this is just my craving. I really wanted to see
>this functionality in Poseidon, but I don't see it there. (Strange, it
>sports "SQL DDL Code Generation" but doesn't seem to have any DB
>modeling interface. I do a lot of modeling, both objects and tables, so
>I'll definitely seek out that add-on. Thanks.
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From my handy Gentoo package search engine:
* app-office/dia2code
Latest version available: 0.8.1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 69 kB
Homepage: http://dia2code.sourceforge.net/
Description: Convert UML diagrams produced with Dia to various
source code flavours.
License: GPL-2
* app-office/tedia2sql
Latest version available: 1.2.8
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 47 kB
Homepage: http://tedia2sql.tigris.org/
Description: Convert database ERD designed in Dia into SQL DDL
scripts.
License: GPL-2
* dev-db/dbdesigner
Latest version available: 4.0.5.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 9,120 kB
Homepage: http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/
Description: DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that
integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a
single, seamless environment.
License: GPL-2