Thread: Good Open source reverse UML creation tool
I have been asked this question by some folks, and I have also asked the question myself several times: - Is there any good open source software that allows you to create a nice UML representation of an already existing database running on Linux This seems like a highly used feature for software developers - surely, as part of the design specification, we should include a diagram of the database. Visual Paradigm has this feature, at a cost of $1800: http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/demos/dbmodeling/dbtoerd.jsp There is also a Dia plugin (autodoc), but the results are, well, depressing: http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/output-dia.html What do you use for this task? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Good-Open-source-reverse-UML-creation-tool-tp20818202p20818202.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
wild_oscar wrote on 03.12.2008 19:22: > I have been asked this question by some folks, and I have also asked the > question myself several times: > - Is there any good open source software that allows you to create a nice > UML representation of an already existing database running on Linux Database are not visualized using UML, but using an Entity-Relationship Model. Using UML for that task is a nasty workaround in my eyes. I'm quite happy with Power*Architect: http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architect Thomas