Why UML “Really” Died

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Swimlanes.io

Ha-ha, just now I am sitting writing documentation and use UML for illustrations. No-one told me it's dead. I must say, CASE tools have always been missing even very basic elements of UML. I've learned UML in year 2000 by reading the full "The Unified Modeling Language User Guide" book by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson. Every time when I tried to create a diagram during the years, after I envisioning how I would express the idea with UML I was blocked by the tool not supporting the notation elements I needed. Like for communication diagram the tool did not support the iteration notation of message numbers, only simple numbers (what tool was it? Maybe even Rational Rose). I adjusted to not expect much from the tools and I think I know how to use UML to create useful illustrations - just use a workaround the tool limitation with a comment or less descriptive notation then I expected. Not to say I used UML very much over the years, as I use it today I realize I forgot many things and need to refresh my memory. However, I see sequence diagrams used all the time. From time to time I see other diagrams. The tools lie plantuml as well as the online utilities like https://www.websequencediagrams.com/, https://swimlanes.io, and https://sequencediagram.org are flourishing.

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SequenceDiagram.org

Ha-ha, just now I am sitting writing documentation and use UML for illustrations. No-one told me it's dead. I must say, CASE tools have always been missing even very basic elements of UML. I've learned UML in year 2000 by reading the full "The Unified Modeling Language User Guide" book by Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson. Every time when I tried to create a diagram during the years, after I envisioning how I would express the idea with UML I was blocked by the tool not supporting the notation elements I needed. Like for communication diagram the tool did not support the iteration notation of message numbers, only simple numbers (what tool was it? Maybe even Rational Rose). I adjusted to not expect much from the tools and I think I know how to use UML to create useful illustrations - just use a workaround the tool limitation with a comment or less descriptive notation then I expected. Not to say I used UML very much over the years, as I use it today I realize I forgot many things and need to refresh my memory. However, I see sequence diagrams used all the time. From time to time I see other diagrams. The tools lie plantuml as well as the online utilities like https://www.websequencediagrams.com/, https://swimlanes.io, and https://sequencediagram.org are flourishing.

#Diagrams #Flow Charts And Diagrams #Flowcharts 29 social mentions