Symfony-Zone

Not a symfony related blog entry but I ran into this tool yesterday and I pretty like it. So I want to share my finding with you. Maybe you know it: You are working on some documentation in your favorit wiki (trac, redmine…) and you like to add some UML diagramm fragments to it. Switching to a vector drawing or UML-Tool, creating the diagram, saving it as a bitmap graphic, uploading it to the wiki and linking it in the wiki-markup… *phew* A lot of work for a simple task.

It can be done easier Just use yUML for creating the UML fragments. The free service use a different, more declarative, approach.You can add UML via image tags to your blog or wiki.

For example:<img src=”http://yuml.me/diagram/class/[Order]->[Position]”>” /> results in

Of course you can create more complex diagrams like this one (from the yUML documentation).

<img src=”http://yuml.me/diagram/class/[Customer]<>1-orders 0..*>[Order], [Order]++*-*>[LineItem], [Order]-1>[DeliveryMethod], [Order]*-*>[Product], [Category]<->[Product], [DeliveryMethod]^[National], [DeliveryMethod]^[International]”/>

It is surprising, what can be done with this solution

• Aggregation
• Relations
• Composition
• Inheritance
• Cardinality
• Labels
• Classes with methods and properties

All included.  Beside class diagrams Use cases can created also.

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