Planning Tools

Planning tools for b2 development

PlantUML

PlantUML is nice code for rapidly producing diagrams, flowcharts, and other figures useful for planning.

To use PlantUML, grab the jar file from the development page and save it somewhere on your hard drive, say SOMEPATH.

To use it, produce a .uml file (or whatever extension you want, it just has to be a text file), say FILE.uml, and use the command

java -jar SOMEPATH/plantuml.jar FILE.uml

to produce a .png figure. PNG is the default output format. If you want scalable EPS, and to process all .uml files in current directory, just tell PlantUML:

java -jar SOMEPATH/plantuml.jar -teps *.uml

More advanced features are available - see this page for some nice examples.