Tool for Creating UML Class Diagrams from OWL Ontologies?

[Martin Hepp (UniBW)-2]

Dear all:
Can anyone recommend a good tool for deriving UML class diagrams from
OWL ontologies in a way that allows editing the final diagram?

The plug-in for Protégé 4.0

http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/OWL2UML

creates only a .png file of limited quality and the online tool at

http://owl2xmi.sourceforge.net/
http://swap.uib.es:8080/owl2xmi/

exports only XMI 1.0 as far as I can see.


Thanks for any hints!

Best

Martin

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e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

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[Paul Gearon]

You should have a talk to Sandpiper Software, as they specialize in
translating both ways between OWL and UML, and have a GUI framework
that plugs into Eclipse.

  http://www.sandsoft.com/

I don't know if they've formally released it, but I've seen it running
and it's nice. It's also based on some heavy research to get the
mappings right (join projects with IBM, DSTO, etc). Have a chat with
them, and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out.

Regards,
Paul Gearon
Fedora Commons

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Martin Hepp
(UniBW)<hepp@...> wrote:

> Dear all:
> Can anyone recommend a good tool for deriving UML class diagrams from OWL
> ontologies in a way that allows editing the final diagram?
>
> The plug-in for Protégé 4.0
>
> http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/OWL2UML
>
> creates only a .png file of limited quality and the online tool at
>
> http://owl2xmi.sourceforge.net/
> http://swap.uib.es:8080/owl2xmi/
>
> exports only XMI 1.0 as far as I can see.
>
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> Best
>
> Martin
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> martin hepp
> e-business & web science research group
> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
>
> e-mail:  mhepp@...
> phone:   [phone]
> fax:     [phone]
> www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
>        http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
> skype:   mfhepp twitter: mfhepp
>
>
>
>

[Paola Di Maio]

I would have thought eclipse, but maybe thats only for  uml to owl
owl to uml possibly Altova Semantic works?


pdm

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Paul Gearon <gearon@...> wrote:

You should have a talk to Sandpiper Software, as they specialize in
translating both ways between OWL and UML, and have a GUI framework
that plugs into Eclipse.

 http://www.sandsoft.com/

I don't know if they've formally released it, but I've seen it running
and it's nice. It's also based on some heavy research to get the
mappings right (join projects with IBM, DSTO, etc). Have a chat with
them, and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out.

Regards,
Paul Gearon
Fedora Commons

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Martin Hepp
(UniBW)<hepp@...> wrote:
> Dear all:
> Can anyone recommend a good tool for deriving UML class diagrams from OWL
> ontologies in a way that allows editing the final diagram?
>
> The plug-in for Protégé 4.0
>
> http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/OWL2UML
>
> creates only a .png file of limited quality and the online tool at
>
> http://owl2xmi.sourceforge.net/
> http://swap.uib.es:8080/owl2xmi/
>
> exports only XMI 1.0 as far as I can see.
>
>
> Thanks for any hints!
>
> Best
>
> Martin
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> martin hepp
> e-business & web science research group
> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
>
> e-mail:  mhepp@...
> phone:   [phone]
> fax:     [phone]
> www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
>        http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
> skype:   mfhepp twitter: mfhepp
>
>
>
>

[Elisa Kendall]

Thanks Paul,

Martin -- we have an add-in to IBM Rational Rose we sell that supports
OWL 1 now, and are
alpha testing our second generation capability for OWL 2 in No Magic's
MagicDraw UML tool
at present.  It has been developed entirely in Eclipse (though MagicDraw
is not built on
Eclipse -- it has an interface to it), and uses the OWL API from the
University of Manchester.
We have also integrated Pellet, though we're still thinking about what
it would mean to show
issues Pellet finds in terms of consistency, etc. in the context of a
UML diagram.

All of the diagrams are editable and ODM-compliant - we attempt to keep
you from "shooting
yourself in the foot" through rules that augment our custom diagrams,
but you can also create other
kinds of UML diagrams, add stereotypes from other profiles for various
purposes (/e.g/., SysML,
Java, etc.), reuse the terminology you've specified in your ontology in
other UML models through
package imports, etc., as you would with any UML profile.

We're planning to release the beta version later this summer through the
MagicDraw site.  Ports
to other UML tools are planned, but not likely before next year.  Parts
of the work will also be
released through the Eclipse MDT project as open source, but probably
not until next year, as we
are still ironing out a few bugs in the ODM 1.0 through the 1.1 revision
task force at OMG, and
would rather not incur the support overhead until the profiles are
fairly stable.

Please feel free to contact me off list, and I would be delighted to
share more.

Best regards,

Elisa

Paul Gearon wrote:

> You should have a talk to Sandpiper Software, as they specialize in
> translating both ways between OWL and UML, and have a GUI framework
> that plugs into Eclipse.
>
>   http://www.sandsoft.com/
>
> I don't know if they've formally released it, but I've seen it running
> and it's nice. It's also based on some heavy research to get the
> mappings right (join projects with IBM, DSTO, etc). Have a chat with
> them, and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out.
>
> Regards,
> Paul Gearon
> Fedora Commons
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Martin Hepp
> (UniBW)<hepp@...> wrote:
>  
>> Dear all:
>> Can anyone recommend a good tool for deriving UML class diagrams from OWL
>> ontologies in a way that allows editing the final diagram?
>>
>> The plug-in for Protégé 4.0
>>
>> http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/OWL2UML
>>
>> creates only a .png file of limited quality and the online tool at
>>
>> http://owl2xmi.sourceforge.net/
>> http://swap.uib.es:8080/owl2xmi/
>>
>> exports only XMI 1.0 as far as I can see.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any hints!
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> martin hepp
>> e-business & web science research group
>> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
>>
>> e-mail:  mhepp@...
>> phone:   [phone]
>> fax:     [phone]
>> www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
>>        http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
>> skype:   mfhepp twitter: mfhepp
>>
>>
>>
>>
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