NetBeans UML Modeling Module

With the NetBeans UML modeling feature, designers and developers can focus on their own work, where designers focus on application design, and developers focus on writing code. First, designers and analysts will use the standard modeling language UML to design the application, and then the developer can write the source code through the UML model. Of course, the UML Modeling feature has two ways of working (forward engineering and reverse engineering), not only can you generate source code from a UML model, but you can also update the model with changes to the source code.

Note: The Update Center for NetBeans provides you with a UML module. You need information about how to add modules to the NetBeans IDE.

Mac users Note: The Mac platform does not currently support UML features, and if you need information about known issues and solutions, see the release notes.

UML Diagram types

With the NetBeans UML modeling module, you can create 8 types of UML Diagrams: Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, collaboration diagrams, component diagrams, deployment diagrams, Sequence diagrams, state diagrams, and use case diagrams.

Forward Engineering and reverse engineering

You can either generate Java code from a model or create a UML model from existing Java source code. The code generated from a UML module does not contain any manual markup (for example, annotations or tags that developers manually introduce to help write code).

Improved work Flow

You can simply use an XML file to introduce the design requirements of your application into the model, or you can import these design requirements through the telelogic doors requirements tool. In addition, you can create Javadoc-style Web reports for your model to easily share your work with other developers. UML modules provide a complete set of predefined and extensible design patterns, including EJB 1.1, EJB 2.0, and Gang of four (23 design patterns).