UML Sculptor 2.0

Coding standards guidelines for writing consistent code to ease maintenance.

System architecture logical and physical overview of the system to ease maintenance and to allow new members of the team to get up to speed with the project easier. It includes structural (repository, client-server, abstract-machine) and control (event-driven) models of the system as well as the module decomposition of the system (object-oriented).

Tools for module interface and module implementation specification development environment improvements that will ease the maintenance and writing of new module interface and implementation specifications.

Module interface and module implementation specifications documentation of interfaces and their implementations.

XML file format prepares the ground for easy extensions to the file format in the future.

Multiple UML diagrams stored in one file necessary for incorporation of new UML diagram types into the application.

UML Sculptor 2.1

Plug-in architecture framework for extending the functionality of the application by making minimal or no changes to the core application code.

Built-in plug-ins internal reorganization intended to streamline the core application code. Built-in plug-ins will be written to load, save, and export as images documents being edited.

Page setup printing support improvements to allow for scaling of the output print-out and for the incorporation and placement of headers and footers.

UML Sculptor (future revisions)

Use-case, sequence, statechart, deployment, component, collaboration, and activity diagrams

Presentation improvements - fonts, lines, fills

Editing improvements - hierarchical package/component browser - pattern library - undo/redo history

Cross-platform improvements

Round-trip engineering - code generation - reverse engineering