XML元数据交换开源工具-------ArgoUML

ArgoUML was conceived as a tool and environment for use in the analysis and design of object-oriented software systems. In this sense it is similar to many of the commercial CASE tools that are sold as tools for modeling software systems. ArgoUML has a number of very important distinctions from many of these tools.

1. It is free.

2. ArgoUML draws on research in cognitive psychology to provide novel features that increase productivity
by supporting the cognitive needs of object-oriented software designers and architects.

3. ArgoUML supports open standards extensively - UML, XMI, SVG, OCL and others.

4. ArgoUML is a 100% pure Java application. This allows ArgoUML to run on all platforms for
which a reliable port of the Java2 platform is available.

5. ArgoUML is an open source project. The availability of the source ensures that a new generation of
software designers and researchers now have a proven framework from which they can drive the
development and evolution of CASE tool technologies.