BOUML
{{Short description|Open source UML diagram software}}
{{Infobox software
| name = BOUML
| logo = Bouml titre.jpg
| screenshot = Bouml-screenshot.jpg
| caption =
| collapsible =
| developer = Bruno Pagès
| latest_release_version = 7.11 patch 3
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2025|03|25}}{{cite web
| url = https://www.bouml.fr/historic.html
| title = BOUML - a free UML tool box
| website = bouml.fr
| access-date = 2025-04-15
}}
| programming language = C++
| operating system = Cross-platform
| language = Multilingual
| genre = Unified Modeling Language tool box
| license = Proprietary starting from v5.0 up to v6.12, free of use from v7.0
| website = {{URL|https://www.bouml.fr/}}
}}
BOUML is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram designer. Programmed in C++ and Qt, it is multilingual, and supports code generation and code reverse engineering. The releases prior to version 4.23 are free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). BOUML 5 up to 6.12 is proprietary software. BOUML 7 and later is free software.{{cite web|title=Historic |url=http://bouml.fr/historic.html |website=bouml.fr |accessdate=31 May 2017}}
History
In September 2010, developer Bruno Pagès announced that he was ceasing work on BOUML (other than bug fixes), citing "copyright violations and mismanagement from Wikipedia administrators".{{Cite web |first=Bruno |last=Pagès |url=http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=212600&id=291660 |title=Bouml is Dead |website=sourceforge.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410155052/http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=212600&id=291660 |archivedate=April 10, 2011 }}{{Cite web|first=Bruno |last=Pagès |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/bouml/forums/forum/764769/topic/3835276 |title=Encouragement |website=sourceforge.net |date=September 14, 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116042352/http://sourceforge.net/projects/bouml/forums/forum/764769/topic/3835276 |archivedate=November 16, 2010 }}
The version 4.23 named "ultimate" was distributed in November 2010,{{Cite web|url=http://bouml.fr/historic_old.html |title=Historic: Old Releases |website=bouml.fr |accessdate=5 March 2012}} after which it was announced that no more updates would be released. However, several patches were released after the announcement, the last being BOUML 4.23 ultimate patch 7 in October 2011.
In February 2012, version 5 was released as the first paid version. It has a new file format, but is backward compatible in that version 5 can read project files saved by the old versions.
In August 2012, version 6 was released as the first version managing MySQL.{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}
In May 2017, BOUML is again free of use and the version 7 was released as the first of the new free versions, it is still backward compatible in that version 7 can read project files saved by the old versions.
In August 2021, developer Bruno Pagès announced the end of the development of BOUML due to obsolescence of the used framework.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Code generation and reverse engineering
BOUML can automatically generate code from the UML class diagrams and rebuild them from existing source code using the following languages: C++, Java, PHP, and MYSQL.{{cite web|title=Features |url=http://bouml.fr/features.html |website=bouml.fr |accessdate=31 May 2017}} It can also generate code for Python and IDL, but not extract the UML model for these languages.
See also
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