StarUML was an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 UML tool

UML tool

A UML tool or UML modeling tool is a software application that supports some or all of the notation and semantics associated with the Unified Modeling Language , which is the industry standard general purpose modeling language for software engineering.UML tool is used broadly here to include...

, licensed under a modified version of GNU GPL. After being abandoned for some time, the project had a last revival to move from Delphi to Java/Eclipse and stop again. However, the community is still active and many topics are discussed on the forums.

The stated goal of the project was to replace larger, commercial applications such as Rational Rose and Borland

Borland

Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, Cupertino, California and finally Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.-The 1980s:...

's Together

Borland Together

Together is a product line from Borland that integrates a Java IDE, which originally had its roots in JBuilder with a UML modeling tool.The product line used to come in various levels of functionality, called Together Developer, Together Designer, and Together Architect, however, since 2007, they...

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StarUML supports most of the diagram types specified in UML 2.0

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

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