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Today I started the process of creating the UML models for a prototype application that I am building and decided that it was time to move on from Grant Skinner’s GModeler and start looking for something with some more features. After about an hour of searching I felt I was at a dead end. I came across a number of blog posts talking about various UML Modeling apps and how they work well for Java and C; however, they don’t have support for Actionscript stub code (which is something that I really want). I kept finding post after post about this elusive project called Saffron that was supposed to be the Holy Grail of Actionscript UML Modelers (and also written on AIR which is just cool). The problem with Saffron is that it apparently doesn’t exist (yet). There have been people talking about it with aniticipation for over a year and there still doesn’t seem to be any actual product (also the site of the developer who started the project is currently down, which doesn’t help to instill any hope in me). I figured at this point I was at a loss, so I headed over to gModeler, started creating a few objects, and decided that it just wasn’t going to wrok. There HAS to be something better out there. So I gave google one more shot, and that’s when I came across a post on Senocular.com discussing how he had just written a plugin for a FREE UML Modeling app called “StarUML” and that it would output AS3 stub code! SUCCESS! I haven’t actually tried it yet (I will as soon as I post this), but so far it’s looking good. He just posted the update a few days ago, and has even included a nice tutorial on how to install the plugins and get it all working (http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/starumltoas3/). Now it’s time to take this baby for a test drive!

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