Support for UML Communication Diagram

Question

Hi, do you plan to support UML communication diagrams?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_diagram

regards

Marc

Comments

I really want this feature too (so i can finally stop using uml editors)

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I join the request of the communication diagram. It is a widely used, especially for people who are studying at the university ( software engineering ). This type of diagram is widely used and is very useful to understand the flow of messages without going into much detail as in the sequence diagram (moreover, stereotypes classes help much to understand the flow of the use case)

Thanks and I expect a prompt response !!

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I'd like to see support for communication diagrams. Every time I use plantuml I feel this layout is missing. Please can we see it :o)

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I think this feature would be really really handy!

Answer 1

This feature could be very handy. I would also leverage the biggest strenght of PlantUML - sequence diagrams.

In principle, the communication diagram is another representation of messages between objects. Some people would understand the communication diagram better than sequence.

Practically it would mean extending line descriptions in object diagram.

This would also allow simple transition between diagram - the designer can decide if the same situation is better to be described by sequence or communication diagram. (This was also supported in Rational Rose where a diagram was possible to simply convert to another.)