Varsity project on sourceforge.net

In the penultimate year of my bachelors course in Information Science engineering, my classmate, Vineeth and I developed a handy little piece of software. Back then, we were learning UML and were amused with how new applications could be designed using it's methodology. Why not develop software using which we could design UML diagrams, we thought. This idea stuck as our curricular mini-project for the 6th semester.

The UML design suite, which was the result of our efforts, finally had 7 modules. You could develop

• Use-case diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Activity diagrams
  
• Class diagrams
• Component diagrams
• Deployment diagrams
  

We implemented two options for saving work. First, an open XML based file format which we developed. Second, any of a set of well known image formats including JPEG and PNG.

The project was not publically available for long and we knew we could not leave something of it's kind stored somewhere on a CD or computer without any positives coming out of it. So recently, I submitted the online and requested sourceforge to have our project up on their archives.

On sourceforge, our project has a homepage, screenshots, a subversion repository, forums for development and open discussion. All these can be accessed by clicking:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/umldesignsuite