An Introduction to Visual Paradigm

An Introduction to Visual Paradigm

There are many UML modeling tools on the market. In this article, I’d like to introduce the one I used in my daily work called Visual Paradigm.

I have used many UML and modeling tools in my career, some are open-sourced and some are commercial softwares. There are many options in this field you can choose from, such as ArgoUML¹, StarUML², OmniGraffle³, or etc. You can check the links of these tools I’ve provided to you to see if they can fit your requirements.

The tool I used in my daily work is called Visual Paradigm⁴, and it is abbreviated as VP. Here is a brief introduction of this tool⁵:

This software is a UML CASE Tool supporting UML 2, SysML and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

There are many features provided by VP, not limited to UML diagrams:

As the screenshot shown above, you can see there are a lot of features provided by the tool. I use this tool mainly for its reversing engineering capabilities to generate UML Class Diagram and Sequence Diagram from Java or C++ codes. As you can see in the following diagram, VP can generate UML 2 Class Diagram directly from Java Class File:

The generated class diagram is like this:

And I can also generate class diagram for multiple classes to analyze their relationships:

VP can also generate UML Sequence Diagram directly from class methods:

Here is the generated sequence diagram that can be helpful to analyze the program logic:

In addition, the diagram can be exported as different formats for future usages:

Till now, I have shown you the basic usages of Visual Paradigm from a programmer’s perspecitve. For project managers and designers, I believe they can dig out more values from the tool.

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