UMLSpeed 0.19

UMLSpeed project is a compiler for a simple, C-style language that allows declaration of UML entities and diagrams. Diagrams can be compiled into SVG and the entities to XMI for use with other tools.
Why?
- Graphical UML tools in general suck - why should we, as programmers have to drag and drop stupid graphical things and use a mouse when we could express what we want 10 times faster with a text editor and a simple notation? - More importantly, why should we have to lay everything out when the computer could do it for us?
- Graphical UML tools are bloated, huge, memory and disk-hogging monsters.
- Graphical UML tools use either a binary data format or XML, which is not particularly friendly to source code control systems.
Main features:
- Written in GCJ-portable java and compiled natively. Its extremely fast even when dealing with thousands of entities and diagrams.
- Purely command-line driven and takes miniscule resources.
- Flexible enough with file imports that large UML projects can be broken up into separate files and only individual bits built at a time as required.
- C-style syntax means that the source language integrates well with source code control and diff tools.
- Standards compliant - produces interoperable SVG and XMI, as well as clean source code.
- Can integrate with automated build tools for regular diagram/xmi compilation.
Status
This is still alpha software. Dont hold me responsible if it kills your pets and blows your house up.
Implemented so far:
- Compiler/parser
- Namespaces, Class diagrams and related entities
- Use case diagrams and related entities
- Auto-link pathfinding
- XMI 1.3 output
- VIM syntax highlighting
- Code generation (Java and Python)
Still to do:
- Documentation output
- Code generation (Ruby, PHP, Perl, C++, C#)
- Diagram packages
- Diagram notes
- Alternative diagram layout managers
- Deployment diagrams
- Sequence diagrams
- Activity diagrams
Enhancements:
- Added facilities to store HTML of reports in a buffer for use by plugins and turn off file generation. Maven plugin now uses this when using Doxia for generation.
- Added $PROJECTNAME and $PROJECTVERSION HTML tokens, with CLI parameters to set them. Maven plugin will automatically set them.
- Added $PUBLISHDATE token
- Added $TOC key for generating links to bookmarks on the same page.