Thursday, December 27, 2007

BOUML - you gotta like it

I just got back to playing with BOUML - a really nice UML modeler and code generation tool. Earlier this year I successfuly managed to create state machine model and from it generate working C++ code to include in a framework testing part of the large embedded system functionality. This time I'm trying to employ BOUML to bring to life a library I was planning to release long time already (more details soon?). Anyway, working with BOUML is getting more and more interesting, and with each step it reveals more and more of its hidden gems (along with few flaws, naturaly).

Monday, December 24, 2007

Coral UML modeler on Gentoo

Coral is a UML modeler with QT4 gui written in python. It is being developed by the staff and students of the Åbo Akademi University, gathered around CREST. According to the authors it should be able to generate Python code from created UML schema, but unfortunately I have failed in my attempts to do so. Nonetheless, prior to my tinkering with coral I have prepared few ebuilds which allowed me to install coral within the portage tree context (uuencoded below). Enjoy!