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Sequence Diagram Notation
2007-03-30
Visual Paradigm’s product support the UML 2.0 activity diagram notations.
Activity Diagram Notation
2007-03-17
Visual Paradigm’s product support the UML 2.0 activity diagram notations
Use Case Diagram Notation
2007-03-14
Visual Paradigm’s product support the UML 2.1 Use Case Diagram notations.
Support UML2 XMI
2007-03-12
UML2 is an EMF-based (EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework) implementation of the UML 2.x metamodel for the Eclipse platform. Visual Paradigm supports importing and exporting UML2 model through XMI, which is the default serialized form of EMF.
Subversion Integration
2007-03-12
Subversion (SVN) is a popular version control system that store artifacts centrally and keep track of changes and histories. All Visual Paradigm client products are integrated with Subversion to facilitate collaborative modeling. Your team can use Subversion repository to store project files, keep track of changes and perform modeling concurrently. Branching and Merging of project will be available in the next release.
CVS Integration
2007-03-12
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a popular version control system that store artifacts centrally and keep track of changes and histories. All Visual Paradigm client products are integrated with CVS to facilitate collaborative modeling. Your team can use CVS repository to store project files, keep track of changes and perform modeling concurrently. Tagging and Branching of project will be available in the next release.
Class Diagram Notation
2007-02-27
Visual Paradigm’s product support the UML 2.0 notations.
Shape editor
2007-02-26
Although UML and BPMN is an extensive and well-established notation, sometimes they still not rich enough to express your idea. There is a new feature called Shape Editor for designing notation (stencil). You can design your own notation or incorporate clip arts into your diagram.
Slice Exported Diagrams
2007-02-26
Using or reading a very big image file is troublesome. There is a new feature called Diagram Slicer for cutting a big diagram into specified number of image files in manageable size.
Reference to diagram
2007-02-26
In UML space, there is no isolated model. All models should relate to other model(s). You may put a visual relationship (e.g. Association) to related models. Sometimes the relationship between models is not strong enough to have a visual relationship. You may add files, URLs and diagram references to models for elaboration or navigation purposes.
Data Flow Diagram
2007-02-26
Data flow diagram is a well known approach to visualize the data processing in business analysis field. A data flow diagram is strong in illustrating the relationships of processes, data stores and external entities in business information system.
Property Visibility
2006-03-24
DB Visual ARCHITECT(DB-VA) generates properties (Getter/Setter) for each attribute for ORM-Persistable class. By default, the property visibility is generated as public and you can change the property visibility by following the attribute model’s visibility. In this article, you will learn how to change the generation option for property visibility, either Public or Follow attribute.
Generate SQL
2006-03-24
DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) provides the Generate SQL function on the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). The Generate SQL function generates different kinds of SQL statements for entities and relationships. It not only generates SQL statement, but also allows you to modify the generated SQL statement and directly execute the statements on the connected database at once. The MySQL 5.0 database server is used for demonstration.
Selectable
2006-03-24
While direct manipulation of diagram elements has become a must-have in all contemporary visual modeling tools, it would really be a disadvantage when all diagram elements are editable even when you don’t want them to be. The selectable option is thus introduced so you can make certain diagram elements read-only and focus on only the interested ones.
Using ORM Resources of Resource-Centric Interfac
2006-03-21
VP’s Products provide the resource-centric interface which enables the easy creation of diagrams by using the valid editing resources listed around the diagram elements. To enhance the flexibility in creating a class diagram with the persistent objects, an ORM-Persistable class can be easily created and its valid editing resources are provided.
Project Publisher
2006-03-15
Have you been looking for a project viewer to read Visual Paradigm’s projects without having the Visual Paradigm Suite installed? Here it is. Project Publisher is a powerful report generation tool, allowing user to publish Visual Paradigm projects to technical and professional Web documents. The published Web content can be accessed in any Web browser anytime and anywhere, without having the need to install neither the Visual Paradigm Suite or any plug-in.
VP Suite 2.2 Service Pack 1
2006-03-06
There are numbers of new features and enhancement to VP Suite 2.2. These features are base on the major purpose of developing VP Suite; provide a environment to accelerate the entire Model-Code-Deploy process in a disciplined and collaborative way to exceed customers’ expectations. We introduce some of the new features and enhanced features.
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