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{{Infobox software
| name                   = ArgoUML
| logo                   =
| screenshot             = ArgoUML.png
| caption                = 
| developer              = 
| released               = April 1999
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q647784|P348}}
| latest release date    = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q647784|P577}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date    = {{Start date and age|2011|12|15}}
| programming language   = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
| platform               = [[Java SE]]
| genre                  = [[Software development]], [[UML Tool]]
| license                = [[Eclipse Public License|Eclipse Public License 1.0]]
| website                = {{URL|argouml.org}}
}}
'''ArgoUML''' is an [[Unified Modeling Language|UML]] diagramming application written in Java and released under the [[Open-source license|open source]] [[Eclipse Public License]].  By virtue of being a [[Java (programming language)|Java]] application, it is available on any platform supported by [[Java SE]].

==History==
ArgoUML was originally developed at [[University of California, Irvine|UC Irvine]] by Jason E. Robbins, leading to his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] It was an open source project hosted by Tigris.org and moved in 2019 to GitHub.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/argouml-tigris-org/argouml/wiki|title = Home · argouml-tigris-org/Argouml Wiki|website = [[GitHub]]}}</ref> The ArgoUML project included more than 19,000 registered users and over 150 developers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isr.uci.edu/tech-transition.html |title=Tech Transitions at ISR UCI |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120128012458/http://www.isr.uci.edu/tech-transition.html |archive-date=2012-01-28 }}</ref>

In 2003, ArgoUML won the ''Software Development Magazine'''s annual Readers' Choice Award in the “Design and Analysis Tools” category.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ddj.com/architect/184414997#designtools | title = Dr. Dobb's Readers' Choice Awards, 2003 }}</ref>

ArgoUML development has suffered from lack of manpower. For example, ''Undo'' has been a perpetually requested feature since 2003 but has not been implemented yet.<ref>Issue 1834 (May 5th, 2003): Implement undo. http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1834 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120111837/http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1834 |date=2017-11-20 }}</ref>

==Features==
According to the official feature list,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://argouml-tigris-org.github.io/tigris/argouml/features.html | title = ArgoUML Features }}</ref> ArgoUML is capable of the following: 
*All 9 UML 1.4 diagrams are supported.
*Closely follows the UML standard.
*[[Platform independent]] – Java 1.5+ and [[C++]].
*Click and Go! with Java Web Start (no setup required, starts from your web browser).
*Standard UML 1.4 [[metamodeling|Metamodel]].
*[[XML Metadata Interchange|XMI]] support.
*Export diagrams as [[GIF]], [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]], [[PostScript|PS]], [[Encapsulated PostScript|EPS]], [[PGML]] and [[Scalable vector graphics|SVG]].
*Available in ten languages: [[English language|EN]], [[British English|EN-GB]], [[German language|DE]], [[Spanish language|ES]], [[Italian language|IT]], [[Russian language|RU]], [[French language|FR]], [[Norwegian language|NB]], [[Portuguese language|PT]], [[Chinese language|ZH]].
*Advanced diagram editing and zoom.
*Built-in design critics provide unobtrusive review of design and suggestions for improvements.
*Extensible modules interface.
*[[Object Constraint Language|OCL]] support.
*Forward engineering (code generation supports C++ and [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], Java, [[PHP#PHP_3_and_4|PHP&nbsp;4]], [[PHP&nbsp;5]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] and, with less mature modules, [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]], [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]] and [[SQL]]).
*[[Reverse engineering]] / [[JAR (file format)|JAR]]/class file import.

==Weaknesses==
*ArgoUML does not yet completely implement the UML standard.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://argouml.tigris.org/documentation/umlsupport/index.html | work = ArgoUML documentation | title = UML Specification Incompatibility list | access-date = 2006-04-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110213073541/http://argouml.tigris.org/documentation/umlsupport/index.html | archive-date = 2011-02-13 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* Partial undo feature (working for graphics edits <ref>{{cite web
|url=http://argouml.tigris.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1228
|title=ArgoUML 0.19.3 released
|access-date=2008-12-15
|archive-date=2020-07-01
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701142413/http://argouml.tigris.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1228
|url-status=dead
}} Undo working for graphics edits (this is mostly a GEF addition).</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1834
|title=Issue 1834. Implement undo
|access-date=2008-12-15
|archive-date=2017-11-20
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120111837/http://argouml.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1834
|url-status=dead
}} Undo working for graphics edits (this is mostly a GEF addition).</ref>)
* Java Web Start launching may no longer work reliably. See [[Java Web Start]].
==See also==
*[[List of UML tools]]
*[[MetaCASE tool]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|ArgoUML}}
*{{Official website|argouml.org}}

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