I use http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ for most of my sequence diagrams. It won't do other UML diagrams but the sequence diagrams are incredibly easy to do. It is also possible to just embed links to their service with your diagram text in the web site.
Ralph On Aug 20, 2012, at 5:27 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Hello, > > As our components are mainly low level libraries, they target > developers. I wonder if we could add some basic UML diagrams for some > elements. > > I know such diagrams are a pain to maintain, so I have looked at > something really simple, with the goal to only display a few core elements. > > I have found plantuml <http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/index.html> to be > almost a perfect fir for this goal. It can be used from the command > line, it can be used with eclipse, it can be used with Maven (see > <https://github.com/jeluard/maven-plantuml-plugin>). > > Here are some diagrams I have made for [math]: > <http://people.apache.org/~luc/plantuml-apache-commons-math/>. There are > also other diagrams I have made for Orekit, which aslo show some > sequence diagrams: > <https://www.orekit.org/static/architecture/propagation.html>. > > I would like to add such diagrams to our documentation, for example by > adding a "design" directory under "src/site" for holding the .puml text > files that depict the diagrams, and generating the png images under > target/site/images. This can be done by adding the following plugin > definition to the pom, in the build section: > > <plugin> > <groupId>com.github.jeluard</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-plantuml-plugin</artifactId> > <version>7876</version> > <configuration> > <sourceFiles> > <directory>${basedir}</directory> > <includes> > <include> > src/site/design/*.puml > </include> > </includes> > </sourceFiles> > <outputDirectory> > ${basedir}/target/site/images/design > </outputDirectory> > </configuration> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>pre-site</phase> > <goals> > <goal>generate</goal> > </goals> > </execution> > </executions> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>net.sourceforge.plantuml</groupId> > <artifactId>plantuml</artifactId> > <version>7930</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > </plugin> > > I don't know however if this runs everywhere, as I guess plantuml itself > has a hidden dependency to graphviz. > > I have two questions. Could someone check if the maven integration runs > by itself on a pristine computer with nothing special installed (i.e. > without having graphviz pre-installed) ? What do you think about adding > such feature, either with an automatic generation of images or with the > images pre-generated by our own build tools and included (together with > their source script) in the distribution archive? > > best regards, > Luc > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >
