Steve Spicklemire wrote:
"RC" == RC Compaan <sparroy@adept.co.za> writes:
RC> Hi Steve
RC> I'm also a babe in the woods when it comes to object RC> modelling, but here's my pennie's worth. Since code RC> generation was not really required in the models I recently RC> did for Zope Apps and the terrible exchange rate on the South RC> African Rand I decided to use to very light weight Playground RC> modelling tool. I agree with Steve Alexander that Coad RC> notation serves ZPatterns *better* and this is exactly what RC> Playground uses.
Ahh.. alas Playground is Win only (if I'm thinking correctly that it's the software that came in Coad's book), and I loaned tbe book and CD to someone else ... grrrr... ;-)
It is the software that comes with the book, and it is Win only. I started using it but switched to ConceptDraw because I got tired of turning my chair around to face the Windows machine every time I wanted to look at my object model. Like Roche said, you don't need code generation, so all you need is to be able to place classes and connect them. Playground is nice in that it actually knows about classes and lets you view class lists, create connections from the list and so on. ConceptDraw is just a drawing program so you won't have class lists, and the libraries aren't complete, but on the other hand, it works well on a Mac and, unlike Playground, it lets you do Coad, UML, Use Cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, component diagrams, collaboration diagrams... Itai -- Itai Tavor "Je sautille, donc je suis." C3Works itai@c3works.com - Kermit the Frog "If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything"