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30-day challenge: the road to TextUML Toolkit 1.0
I decided to join a group of fellow mISVers in the 30-day product challenge. Differently from most of the other entries, which will go from product idea to release in 30 days, the TextUML Toolkit has...
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TextUML Toolkit – Commitments for the 30 day challenge
As I mentioned before, I joined the 30 day product challenge with the TextUML Toolkit. Of the benefits of being part of the challenge, the ones that most attract me are the sense of being part of...
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TextUML Toolkit – Progress on the sample application
Took a first stab at creating the model for the sample application for the TextUML Toolkit. As I wrote here before, the sample application is derived from Sun’s Java Pet Store application. Take a look...
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TextUML Toolkit – Layout control for class diagrams
Contrary to my original intention of working this week on code generation and the sample application, I have been doing some improvements in the graphical visualization of UML models in...
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The bleeding edge: not for the faint of heart
(To my fellow 30-dayers: It has been a while since my last post in the 30-day challenge category – at least if you think of how brief it is. But worse, I am also behind the schedule. My goal was to...
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Moving forward again
I finally figured out what was preventing me from exporting the product from Eclipse and worked around the problem. So the TextUML Toolkit RC1 is finally available for download, 4 days after planned....
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Scope cutting season
Well, things are not going so smoothly in TextUML Toolkit land. Hope the others are doing better. a user reported that the embedded Graphviz install was not working for him on Windows XP (I expected it...
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Time is up
Even after cutting scope to close to half of what I was planning, I failed to accomplish what I set off to do in the 30-day challenge. I basically have the code and the example in a releasable state,...
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Sample application, TextUML Toolkit RC3 are now available
The Pet Store-like model-driven sample application is now available. This initial version contains UML models for a few of the key entities, and generates the domain model classes and their...
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TextUML Toolkit 1.0 has been released!
I am proud to announce that the TextUML Toolkit reached version 1.0! It is basically the same as the RC3 build, made available earlier this week, with version numbers updated to reflect the status of...
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