Introduction to visual Paradigm (I) AND PRELIMINARY Software

1. Introduction to UML tool Visual paradigm 5.3

The latest version is 5.3. The following is a report on it.

Visual paradigm is a UML modeling tool designed for the following personnel, including software engineers, system analysts, business analysts, and system architects, tools are mainly used to provide reliable modeling and analysis tools for oo systems. VP supports the latest Java standards and UML diagrams. In addition, VP can be integrated with other tools, including Eclipse/IBM WebSphere.

Visual paradigm has made rapid progress over the past few years and has been widely used. Visual paradigm is also the winner of the 15th World jolt UML design tool award.

The most noteworthy is that visual paradigm is a UML tool developed by the Chinese themselves. The developer is from visual paradigm International Ltd in Hong Kong.

According to the report, the new version includes replacing traditional UML Symbols with custom images, O/R Mapping digoal, improving robustness analysis (MVC) Chart support, and linking files in charts.

II. The following describes how to use it.
Chapter 1 start work with visual paradigm

By default, visual paradigm for UML 5.3 Enterprise Edition is installed for the first time.
1. Just like the eclipse tool, visual paradigm requires that the workspace be specified first when running.
By default, the workspace selected by visual paradigm is % home_directory % vpworkspace.

2. Enter the license key you have obtained.
This license can be obtained free of charge on its home page http://www.visual-paradigm.com/. the license period is limited to 30 days.
Assuming you have obtained the license file, the License Manager VP-UML EE license key manager will prompt you to enter the license file, which is similar to IBM Rational Software License ect software.
Select license key-> Import. The import license key box is displayed. Select your license file license_keys.zvpl to complete registration.

3. dockable Environment
The VP-UML uses a docker environment that allows you to drag user interface components to complete customization of your favorite work environment. You can store this environment as a View File and use it again later. VP-UML allows you to use different views to achieve different goals.

4. Use the docking Environment
The docking environment consists of a series of Windows by calling the docking framework. The docking frame can be either a single floating window or a nested window.
You can click the title bar of the title bar and drag any docking frame to the desired place.
Pay attention to the gray line when you drag the frame, which indicates the position you are dragging.

5. Drag the docking frame to another container contianer.
If you drag the docking frame to another container contianer, the gray line will change its shape to fit the container area.

6. Drag tabulation in the tabulation pane.
In the tabulation pane, each tab is a docking frame that can be dragged and placed. You can drag a tab to make it a floating window.

7. Drag a docking frame to the tabulation pane.
In contrast to 6, you can operate 6 in the direction.

8. Automatically hide the docking Frame
Every docking frame can be set to "automatically hide" Auto Hide. This means that it can be automatically hidden when it is inactive.

9. Box or pane
VP-UML provides a variety of boxes, including:
1) dimo-navigator pane
2) model box model pane
3) class repository pane
4) logic view box logical View pane
5) ORM box ORM Pane: it displays a series of classes and database tables from the specified class path and database.
6) template box stencel pane
7) attribute box property pane
8) digoal overview pane
9) document box documentation pane
10) message box message pane

10. layout and view
The VP-UML provides a variety of views, including:
1) Storage view saving perspective
2) Open the view opening perspective
3) Management View Management Perspective
4) reset view resetting perspective

11. Open the specified dialog box.
Opening the specified dialog box is a top-level window that allows you to browse and edit the details of Model Elements and charts. It can be called by right-clicking and selecting open specification in the pop-up window.

VP-UML buttons generally have five types: reset, Agree OK, cancel, apply, help.

12. navigate between chart Elements
You can navigate between chart elements by opening the specified dialog box. There are two ways to achieve this: one is to navigate through the relationship between chart elements (such as parent-child relationship), and the other is to open the specified dialog box to implement navigation between chart elements.