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Bouml
There are many free UML tools. One is developed by person, other is by company and has limitation of feature or terms and so on.
Bouml is one of the best tools that is free to download and has no limitation of feature.
In Japan, Astah-Community is more popular, but it's a commercial product and community version has many functional restrictions.
functionality | Bouml | Astar-Community |
reverce-engineering | ○ | × |
C++ support | ○ | × |
code generation | ○ | × |
runtime | native multi platform | Java |
export to image | ○(svg) | ○(png,jpeg) |
import XMI | ○ | ×(Professional) |
export XMI | ○ | ×(Professional) |
Therefore I think it is clear Bouml is much more high leve featured one. Why Bouml is not known well to Japanese engineers? The answer simple. It's not translated into Japanese yet. Most of Japanese don't want to read whatever written in foreign language.
Currently both has no compatibility except using XMI(but Astha needs purchasing professional version). And, I did not confirm XMI is actually useful to share common design data.