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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:23:41 +0100
Subject: Re: uml (was: documentation)
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From: Alex Blewitt <Alex.Blewitt@ioshq.com>
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You want to use the EclipseUML plugin from www.omondo.com that can 
generate UML diagrams and save them not only as bitmapped (gif/jpeg) 
formats, but also SVG documents.

Then they can be as big as you want them to be :-)

Alex.
On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 17:18 Europe/London, Adrian Jackson 
wrote:

> Fine for viewing, but if there are any (larger) diagrams that might 
> need
> editing - particularly by others - in the future, JPG isn't exactly the
> happiest of formats to have them available in.
>
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Strachan [mailto:james_strachan@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: 13 August 2003 17:08
> To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: uml (was: documentation)
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 04:38  pm, Daniel Hofstetter wrote:
>
>>>          Also if any person is interested in knowing the internals,
>>> they
>>> should have the necessary documentation with UML diagrams in place
> and
>>> how everything fits together. I suggest that every group specified in
>>> this link
>>> http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?ApacheJ2EE/Volunteers-
>>> _Topi
>>> cs take care of the necessary design documentation (of the source
> code
>>> along with UML diagrams) on the stuff they are working on. This will
>
>>> let
>>> any new person joining the group (to contribute) get a head start on
>
>>> the
>>> design and implementation. This way they will be more productive and
>>> also be encouraged, by having fewer hurdles to cross...
>>
>> Is there a convention by the ASF using a certain file format for uml
>> diagrams? I think it's not useful if one uses the format of Rational
>> Rose and an
>> other
>> uses an
>> incompatible format...
>
> Anything viewable on the web is good. Say PNG, GIF, JPG etc. :)
>
> James
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>