dekstop weblog : UML Sequence Diagram Sketches in Java http://dekstop.de/weblog/2004/03/sequence/ Alex Moffat has created a wonderful little tool to rapidly create UML sequence diagrams. The GPL licensed Java application, appropriately named "Sequence", creates diagrams from short sequence descriptions and allows you to export them to a PNG file. Sequence can't replace more sophisticated applications like TogetherJ or Visio, lacking e.g. ... en-us Copyright 2004 Martin Dittus Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:16:29 GMT MicroLinks 5.6 (dekstop.de) public@dekstop.de public@dekstop.de UML Sequence Diagram Sketches in Java http://dekstop.de/weblog/2004/03/sequence/ Alex Moffat has created a wonderful little tool to rapidly create UML sequence diagrams. The GPL licensed Java application, appropriately named "Sequence", creates diagrams from short sequence descriptions and allows you to export them to a PNG file. Sequence can't replace more sophisticated applications like TogetherJ or Visio, lacking e.g. support for asynchronous messages, but serves well as a small tool for quick sketches. You can literally design your first diagram seconds after downloading the Jar file.

Example sequence diagram

Example of a small sequence diagram: Loading a media file via the user interface. The MediaPlayer class notifies its caller of the properties of the loaded file, which results in an updated user interface.

The image above was created from this code:

GUI.handleUserAction {
  MediaManager.load(filename) {
    MediaPlayer.load(datastream) {
      MediaManager.updateMediaProperties() {
        GUI.updateDisplay()
      }
    }
  }
}

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