Marc is considering Eclipse. He makes some criticism by comparing it with IntelliJ IDEA. I never tried it, but it seems to be the only real competitor to Eclipse, as people complaining about Eclipse are mostly IDEA users. Every other people trying Eclipse (including me) quickly become addicted to its nice features.
Yes, Eclipse currently lacks a good XML editor, but considering the number of plugins that tackle this problem, this shouldn't be true for long.
There's also TogetherSoft's ControlCenter, which has top-cool UML features, but this is a resource hog (better have lots of memory) and I've been told it's rather expensive, while the free version of Omondo's Eclipse plugin provides class diagrams, which is what a Java developer uses most often.
Omondo's price list also shows that the Enterprise Edition (the most featured version) will be free for non-profit organizations, defined as ".org company". Does this mean we can use it for Apache projects ?
Posted by Sylvain Wallez at December 2, 2002 10:43 AMHello Sylvain,
Omondo Enterprise Edition will be free for universities, non profit organisations and private uses. We consider that if you want to use reverse engenering functions on Apache projects, it would be great idea for all java community (you can use our EclipseUML Free Edition to do it right now). Enjoy EclipseUML, and feel free to use it. The autolayout will be available next week and will be helpfull for reverse !
Posted by: Blade on December 2, 2002 01:03 PMNew build EclipseUML 1.1.7 coming tomorow !
Many new functions as reverse, reverse selector (association, inheritage both....), sequence and use case diagrams for UML, and also for EMF.
New GEF used, new graphical functions ...
Enjoy Eclipse, Have fun !