PRESENTATION

 

MagicDraw is a visual UML modeling and CASE tool, which supports the latest standards of Java, UML and XMI and provides the industry's best code engineering mechanism, with full round-trip support for Java, C++, and CORBA IDL programming languages. MagicDraw also provides database schema modelling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities.

MagicDraw is suited for a wide variety of systems including real-time, client/server and distributed n-tier application design.

 

MagicDraw is:

• A handy UML editor

  Cut/copy/paste and undo/redo functions, and a friendly and customizable GUI let you express your ideas in UML as quickly and straightforwardly as possible. The entire UML 1.3 specification is supported. If you are preparing documentation that needs UML diagrams in it, MagicDraw is a must - it can convert drawn diagrams to a wide variety of bitmap and scalable formats such as jpeg, png, svg, dxf, eps, and wmf.

• A powerful code engineering tool

  You can construct UML model, generate source code from it, write more code by hand or in your favorite IDE, then reverse the code, make some changes in the MagicDraw, and merge your model with the code again. No details are lost, no matter which way (backward or forward) you go!

• A UML model reporting facility

  Based on the XSL files, you can generate custom HTML reports for each model element. MagicDraw allows you to select what parts of the model to include and how the report should look.

• An OO model analysis tool

  If you have OO (Object Oriented) model expressed with the help of UML, MagicDraw can generate package dependency diagrams, recover and display inheritance trees, or track any other kind of relation as a method parameter or a return value, such as dependencies, associations, realizations, and class usage.

• A custom OO model generator

  MagicDraw can generate parts of the model automatically. You can select any object and generate the classes necessary to make it conform to a GoF Design Pattern, make an EJB component out of it or convert it to the class that can be accessed remotely in accordance with the Java RMI specification.

• Team modeling tool

  More than one developer can work with the same OO model. The UML model is stored in the Teamwork Server repository. Every single developer can lock a part of the model and work on that part individually. Later the changes can be committed to the server and shared with the team. The server works much like a source code version control system.

• Database modelling tool

  You can design database schema in UML class diagram, then generate it's DDL code. If you want to analyze structure of existing database you can reverse engineer it via JDBC bridge.

Magic Draw UML is available in 2 editions:

• MagicDraw Standard Edition

• MagicDraw Professional Edition