Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML diagrams., Hacker News

PlantUMLis a component that allows to quickly write :

• Sequence diagram
• Usecase diagram
• Class diagram
• Activity diagram(here isthe legacy syntax)
• Component diagram
• State diagram
• Object diagram
• Deployment diagram
• Timing diagram

The following non-UML diagrams are also supported:

• Wireframe graphical interface
• Archimate diagram
• Specification and Description Language (SDL)
• Ditaa diagram
• Gantt diagram
• MindMap diagram
• Work Breakdown Structure diagram
• Mathematic with AsciiMath or JLaTeXMath notation
• Entity Relationship diagram

Diagrams are defined using a simple and intuitive language. (see PlantUML Language Reference Guide).

New users can read thequick start page. There is also aFAQ page. PlantUML can be used withinmany other tools.

Images can be generated in PNG,in SVGorin LaTeXformat. It is also possible to generateASCII art diagrams(only for sequence diagrams).

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Example: (You can edit the text if you want, the diagram will be dynamically updated!)	describes the following diagram:

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