What is an alternative to PowerDesigner or IBM Rational Rose?

Question

I need a powerful development manager like Sybase Power Designer or IBM Rational Rose that support sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams and so on.

Can somebody suggest a good alternative?

Solution 1

Dia

Dia is a diagram editor that can be used to draw flow charts, UML diagrams etc.

Solution 2

you can try one of these:

• Visual Paradim
• EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework is a good starting point and here is a tutotial for it.
• Visual Paradigm: SDE for NetBeans
• ArgoUML
• Umbrello
• Dia

Solution 3

Also take a look at OpenModelsphere. It is more oriented towards data modeling and can be used for both forward and reverse engineering of physical databases plus it supports a (almost) full range of UML, data modeling and business process modeling diagrams.

Oh, and its GPL v3, so no "community" versions or "non-commercial" or other "Thou shall not ..." restrictions :-)

Comments

[Behzadsh]

I change the question, cause I think it wasn't clearly describe what I need!

[knb]

do you simply want to draw UML diagrams or also generate code or reverse engineer code?

[Behzadsh]

Yes I want them, otherwise Dia is a good app for draw diagrams

[Behzadsh]

I already have Gnome Dia, Is this have DFD support?

[dv3500ea]

I don't really know what a data flow diagram is.

[Jason Southwell]

It does have dfd support, just click on the part where it says flowchart and choose which one you want.

[sierrasdetandil]

Netbeans UML plugin was abandoned in version 7.