Poseidon Integrated Into Eclipse

Poseidon Integrated Into Eclipse

HAMBURG, Germany, December 6/PRNewswire/ -- Gentleware AG, maker of the world renowned UML (Unified Modeling
Language) tool Poseidon for UML, introduced its new Major Release 3.0 to the
community, notably including integration into the open Eclipse development
environment. With this release Gentleware places its commitments to Eclipse
in the forefront and has chosen a strategically valuable open source
platform, which has already been established as a quasi-standard among
developers. With this advance, the Hamburg software firm paves new ways for
customers to integrate and work with other tools in conjunction with Poseidon
for UML within the Eclipse environment.



The integration of Poseidon for UML in Eclipse marks another milestone in
the development of the user friendly tool. The connection to the open
source-based development environment is of the greatest importance for many
developers worldwide because working with different programming languages and
tools in fact requires multiple development environments. With the integrated
development environment of Eclipse, the Poseidon user can effortlessly
utilize more tools and languages in a single environment, namely Eclipse, to
maintain and synchronize code and model in one consolidated project. The
previous method of importing and exporting code from other tools and UML
models has now been reduced to the single push of a button within Eclipse.
The advantages for the user include substantial time savings, dramatically
fewer errors, and more productive use of development resources.



CEO and founder Dr. Marko Boger summarizes it for users: "We offer our
customers the best of two worlds: the flexible and open Eclipse development
environment with its particular strengths for working with text and code, and
our modern and easy-to-use UML tool, ideal to visualize a project. The
innovative window control of Eclipse grants our users full customization of
the screen layout." Dr. Boger further explains: "With this step towards the
open source development environment, Gentleware proves itself as a technical
innovation leader and offers the UML community a genuine increase in value."



The new Release 3.0 offers wide-reaching improvements for users of all
editions of the tool. The Professional Edition user can combine the familiar
user friendly interface and improved performance of the UML tool Poseidon for
UML with the potential of the powerful and open Eclipse development
environment. Along with that comes comprehensive extensions to roundtrip
engineering. The program recognizes changes to the source code made outside
of Poseidon, and when necessary recognizes conflicts, resolving the conflicts
automatically as far as possible with manual synchronization options in other
cases.



Customers of the Standard Edition profit from the continued development
of the documentation generator UMLdoc, which now includes complete
representation of Statechart diagrams. For developers of embedded systems, a
collaboration component has been added to allow team modeling. Because the
Hamburg software creators got their start from a community-based project, the
hundreds of thousands of UML users who use the free Community edition have
not been left out. Gentleware has taken some of the previous restrictions out
of this free edition, permitting for example unrestricted printing, making an
absolutely fully usable tool available for non-commercial projects.



About Gentleware



Gentleware AG was founded in 2000 in Hamburg, Germany, and develops tools
for software modeling based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It is led
by the founder and Board of Directors member Dr. Marko Boger, who for a long
time previous was the driving strength behind the open source project
ArgoUML.



The product line "Poseidon for UML" is the leader in UML tools, with over
700,000 downloads worldwide. In addition to the free Community Edition
available on the Gentleware webpage (www.gentleware.com), various commercial
editions with an abundance of the most up-to-date functionalities are
available for the professional use of UML. Poseidon for UML is characterized
in particular by its high degree of usability and its conformity to
international standards. Gentleware has the know-how in pointing the way in
training and consulting as well as with the development of customized tools.



For further information regarding the topics Eclipse and Roundtrip
Engineering you can request more details or an appointment for a webcast with
our CEO, Dr. Marko Boger.



Contact:

Gentleware AG
Nicole Fischer
Schanzenstr. 70
20357 Hamburg
Germany

Direct: +49-40-29898576
Tel: +49-40-24425330
Fax: +49-40-24425331
nicole.fischer@gentleware.com

http://www.gentleware.com/



Source: Gentleware AG

Gentleware AG, Nicole Fischer, Schanzenstr. 70, 20357 Hamburg, Germany, Direct: +49-40-29898576, Tel: +49-40-24425330, Fax: +49-40-24425331, nicole.fischer@gentleware.com, http://www.gentleware.com


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