Monday, August 16, 2010

Netbeans UML Moves to Community

Today after the hand over conference call, we are proud to be the first set of community developers (The Since 2010 developers) of the Netbeans UML plugin. I’ve been a fan of the Netbeans UML plugin, as it was simple and helped produce neat looking UML diagrams, without a lot of fuss. When the Netbeans developers from Sun decided to abandon the UML plugin, I was pretty disappointed. Nevetheless, a few weeks earlier, some members of the Netbeans community were contacted to get involved in reviving the module and I was among the interested developers.

The primary goal of the community developers will be to create a stable release that can be put back on the Plugin Center. This means eliminating the P1 bugs and then P2 bugs which are listed on the dashboard against UML. I hope we can do this before the next release of Netbeans, which is Netbeans 6.10. There are about 3 P1 bugs and 19 P2 bugs today and I’m sure there are more coming on the way as we move to committing fixes and reaching code that works with Netbeans 6.9… It is indeed a milestone that UML has been handed over to the community. Next is the tough part of make it available to the users, so that they can then start filing more bugs and enhancement request and make our contributions more interesting. The developer wiki pages will be updated soon as we start committing code.

NetBeans IDE UML Features is listed under Netbeans 6.9 Features

I guess we aren’t yet here, but we wanna be there soon…

10 comments:

cameo said...

Lovely! Lovely! Lovely! Can't wait for netbeans 6.10 then..lol

Anonymous said...

Really nice to hear that I think NB-UML was one of the best jewels.

Anonymous said...

Great news. I loved NB UML plugin in older verions.
Was much more fun to use than the complicated and extremely expensive Magic Draw.

Anonymous said...

Wonderful news :):):):)

Antonioni said...

I didn't understand when the Sun Microsystems finished the support to this important plugin. But a new hope comes!

Unknown said...

Wonderful news!

Anonymous said...

Yeah! Nice! That was my favorite UML tool. Enhancement? Hmmm. For me tha most missing feature is that the lines do not snap to horizontal and vertical.

Unknown said...

Very nice.. I love this.. Hope fully we can use it in University syllabus instead of using Rational rose :)

Unknown said...

What a marvelous decicion to do that! I liked using Netbeans UML for 6.5 and it was a sad moment hearing that it will no longer be developed for further versions of Netbeans.

Can't wait to get that running again!

Anonymous said...

Good to hear that it will make a comeback.
It was a great tool, and I stuck with 6.7 as long as I could to keep it, but finally had to move on...
I look forward to having it available again....