Java™ Application Development on Linux - Dator

250Chapter 10Integrated <strong>Development</strong> Environments10.2.6 Other Add-on ToolsNetBeans is built to allow other tools to be plugged into it. There is a modulethat you can add to NetBeans to support C/C++ development. But there arevarious other plug-ins available. The best reference for all of those is theNetBeans Web site. 3 Many of the add-ons are commercial, but one notabletool is available, at least in its simple form, as a free download.Poseidon for UML Community Edition is a UML modeling tool that integrateswith NetBeans. A product of Gentleware AG, it is distributed at theirWeb site. 4 The Community Edition is offered free of charge, but they havemore advanced (professional, enterprise) versions for sale. Their Web site saysthat Poseidon for UML Community Edition has the following features:• Fully implemented in Java, platform-independent• All 9 diagrams of the UML supported• Compliant to the UML 1.4 standard• XMI supported as standard saving format• Runs under Java 1.4• Diagram export into GIF, PS, EPS, SVG, JPEG, and PNG• Undo/redo (can be turned on in options)• Copy/cut/paste within the tool• Drag and drop within the tool• Zooming and bird’s eye view of the diagrams• Internationalization and localization for English, German, French, andSpanish• Code generation for Java• Sophisticated support of OCL• Reverse engineering from Java sources• Auto-layout of reverse engineered diagrams• Cognitive support, critique mechanism (by default turned off)• Simple install and update with JavaWebStart3. http://www.netbeans.org/about/third-party.html4. http://www.gentleware.com/