Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition For Linux

Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition (or VP-UML for short) is a freeware and multiplatform software project that provides a model-mode-deploy system. It has been designed for a wide range of users, including system analysts, software engineers, system architects, and business analysts, who are interested in effortlessly building large scale software systems.

Key features include support for UML (Unified Modeling Language) and SysML (Systems Modeling Language) modeling, enterprise architecture, modeling toolset, code engineering, requirement capturer, ERD (Entity Relationship Diagrams) to database conversion, SoaML (Service oriented architecture Modeling Language) modeling, database design, easy diagramming, animated design, team collaboration, as well as source code generation.

VP-UML integrates well with the Eclipse/IBM WebSphere, NetBeans IDE/Sun ONE, Borland JBuilder, IntelliJ IDEA, BEA WebLogic Workshop, and Oracle JDeveloper. It features UML notation support, visual modeling, interoperability, support for teamworks, object-relational mapping, EJB support, streamlined design and development environment, and broad output format support.

Being designed from the ground up to be a cross-platform application, Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition has been officially tested under several well known GNU/Linux distributions, as well as with the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows OSes. Both 64-bit and 32-bit instruction set architectures are supported at this time.

Besides the Community Edition reviewed here, the Visual Paradigm for UML project is distributed in multiple editions, such as Visual Paradigm for UML Professional Edition, Visual Paradigm for UML Enterprise Edition, as well as the Visual Paradigm for UML Modeller Edition. Each one includes a certain number of features, and a couple of them cost money.

Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition is written in the Java programming language and it is available for download as pre-built binary packages in the .sh format, which requires installation, or the tar.gz format, which includes a ready-to-run executable (recommended).