Open ModelSphere is a data, process and UML modeling tool[1] written in Java and distributed as free software under the GPL License. It provides support for forward and reverse engineering between UML and relational schemas.[2]
History
Open ModelSphere has SILVERRUN PerfectO as its ancestor, a proprietary software developed by Computer Systems Advisers and released in 1996. PerfectO was part of the SILVERRUN suite of modeling tools, which is known by the modeling community since the 1990s;[3] PerfectO was used to support object-oriented modeling (limited to class modeling at that time) and object-relational modeling.[4]
In 1998, PerfectO was translated into Java to give SILVERRUN-JD (Java Designer). With the addition of relational data modeling, the product was renamed SILVERRUN ModelSphere and released in 2002. Later on, more features were added including support for business process modeling, conceptual data modeling and UML diagramming.
In September 2008, Grandite released ModelSphere's core application as an open source product based on the GNU Public License version 3. Its development environment is hosted on JavaForge.
Releases
February 2002: SILVERRUN ModelSphere 1.0
- Addition of relational modeling
July 2002: SILVERRUN ModelSphere 2.0
- Addition of business process modeling
September 2008: Open ModelSphere 3.0
- First open source release
November 2009: Open ModelSphere 3.1, featuring
- Core application based on Java 6
- New look & feel
- Interface to forward / reverse engineer Java code
- New mechanism to facilitate the use of plug-ins
See also
Reviews
References
- ^ Podniknové procesy, Grada Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-80-247-2252-8, p 268
- ^ UML and the Unified Process, Liliana Favre, IRM Press, 2003, ISBN 1-931777-44-6, p 219
- ^ The Decline And Fall of the American Programmer, Edward Yourdon, Yourdon Press, 1993, ISBN 0-13-191958-X, p 154
- ^ Informix Unleashed, Sams Publishing, 1997, Chapter 45 (Modeling Types in Informix-Universal Server, Jim Pradesh), ISBN 0-672-30650-6, pp 1117-1118
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