UMLSpeed 0.14

UMLSpeed is an easy to use compiler for a simple, C-style language also allowing 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?
- A declarative approach is closer to the mental model used by developers when designing systems.
- Why should we lay out diagram components 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.
- Has no dependencies on external libraries and is very lightweight.
- 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.
- Consistent language for all diagram types.
- Strikes a balance between automatic laying out of components and giving you control through the use of layout managers - no having to input co-ordinates.
- Compiler/parser
- Namespaces, Class diagrams and related entities
- Use case diagrams and related entities
- Sequence diagrams
- Auto-link pathfinding
- XMI 1.3 output
- VIM syntax highlighting
- Code generation (Java and Python)