SDE for IBM WebSphere (LE) for Windows

Visual Paradigm SDE for WebSphere is an exceptional UML CASE tool and plug-in, which is tightly integrated with WebSphere. It boasts of supporting full software lifecycle - analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. As a result, you can develop quality applications quicker, better, and more efficiently. This UML CASE tool allows you to create various UML diagrams in WebSphere, reverse engineer Java code to class diagrams, and generate Java code and documentation.

SDE-WS Features are another reason why it is an excellent tool. These features include support for UML version 2.1, business workflow diagrams, and collaborative modeling with CVS and Subversion. It also supports UML2 models through XMI while providing a shape editor, data flow diagram, and fast project loading and saving speed. The tool also includes an all-in-one environment for specifying the details of a use case, including general model specifications and use case descriptions.

Moreover, SDE-WS comes with an EJB Diagram, which enables you to visualize EJB systems, and EJB Code Generation and Deployment that allows you to generate beans for your application development and deployment. It also supports ORM to generate Java objects from the database, database generation for ERD to database tables, and database reverse for existing DBMS to ERD. You can easily reverse engineer code to models and diagrams, allowing you to make edits easily.

SDE-WS further supports instant reverse for Java, C, .++NET exe/dll, XML, XML Schema, IDL, and code generation allowing you to model to code and diagram to code. It also exists for automatic synchronization between source code and diagrams and automatic diagram layout to rearrange shapes and connectors efficiently. Furthermore, it integrates with MS Visio stencils allowing you to draw UML diagrams, generate report, export diagrams to JPG, PNG, SVG, PDF/HTML report generator, and more.

In summary, SDE-WS is an excellent UML CASE tool and plugin, supporting a remarkable range of features and tools that make it stand apart from other modeling tools. It is available on various platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Other UML Modeling Tools/plugins available are SDE for Eclipse, Oracle JDeveloper, Borland JBuilder, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, Sun ONE, WebLogic Workshop, and Microsoft Visual Studio.