PlantUML

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PlantUML
Original author Arnaud Roques
Developer Arnaud Roques [1]
Initial release17 April 2009 (2009-04-17) [2]
Stable release
v1.2025.4 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 28 June 2025;7 months ago (28 June 2025)
Repository
Written in Java
Operating system Linux, OS X, Windows
Type UML tool
License GNU General Public License
Website plantuml.com
Plantuml
Filename extension
.pu, .puml, .txt [4]
Type of formatTextual

PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language. Besides various UML diagrams, PlantUML has support for various other software development related formats (such as Archimate, Block diagram, BPMN, C4, Computer network diagram, ERD, Gantt chart, Mind map, and WBD), as well as visualisation of JSON and YAML files.

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The language of PlantUML is an example of a domain-specific language. [5] Besides its own DSL, PlantUML also understands AsciiMath, Creole, DOT, and LaTeX. It uses Graphviz software to lay out its diagrams and Tikz for LaTeX support. Images can be output as PNG, SVG, LaTeX and even ASCII art. PlantUML has also been used to allow blind people to design and read UML diagrams. [6] [7]

Applications that use PlantUML

There are various extensions or add-ons that incorporate PlantUML. [8]

Text format to communicate UML at source code level

PlantUML uses well-formed and human-readable code to render the diagrams.

There are other text formats for UML modelling, but PlantUML supports many diagram types, and does not need an explicit layout, though it is possible to tweak the diagrams if necessary.

+--------------------------------------+ |         TEDx Talks Recommendation    | |                System                | +--------------------------------------+ | +----------------------------------+ | | |          Visitor                 | | | +----------------------------------+ | | | + View Recommended Talks         | | | | + Search Talks                   | | | +----------------------------------+ | +--------------------------------------+                    |                    |                    V +--------------------------------------+ |         Authenticated User           | +--------------------------------------+ | +----------------------------------+ | | |          User                    | | | +----------------------------------+ | | | + View Recommended Talks         | | | | + Search Talks                   | | | | + Save Favorite Talks            | | | +----------------------------------+ | +--------------------------------------+                    |                    |                    V +--------------------------------------+ |         Admin                        | +--------------------------------------+ | +----------------------------------+ | | |          Admin                   | | | +----------------------------------+ | | | + CRUD Talks                     | | | | + Manage Users                   | | | +----------------------------------+ | +--------------------------------------+

See also

References

  1. ↑ "PlantUML overview". 13 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Plantuml". 13 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "Release v1.2025.4".
  4. ↑ "Embedded diagrams into source code". PlantUML.com. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  5. ↑ Campagne, Fabien (June 16, 2014). The MPS Language Workbench, Vol. 1. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN   9781497378650.
  6. ↑ Luque, L.; Veriscimo, E.S.; Pereira, G.C.; Filgueiras, L.V.L. (2014). "Can We Work Together? On the Inclusion of Blind People in UML Model-Based Tasks". In P.M. Langdon; J. Lazar; A. Heylighen; et al. (eds.). Inclusive Designing Joining Usability, Accessibility, and Inclusion (Aufl. 2014 ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing. ISBN   978-3-319-05095-9.
  7. ↑ Müller, Karin (2012). "How to Make Unified Modeling Language Diagrams Accessible for Blind Students". In Miesenberger, Klaus (ed.). Computers Helping People With Special Needs 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. pp. 186–190. ISBN   978-3-642-31521-3.
  8. ↑ "Running". PlantUML. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  9. ↑ "Extension:PlantUML - MediaWiki". www.mediawiki.org. Retrieved 2018-10-21.
  10. ↑ Fruchtzwerg94. "PlantUML Viewer". GitHub. Retrieved 2022-05-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ joethei. "PlantUML". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  12. ↑ "Vnote". GitHub . 13 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "SwiftPlantUML-Xcode-Extension". GitHub . 8 December 2021.
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