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Tom Sawyer Software Empowers UML Modeling Features in Sun Java Studio
Sun Microsystems Announces New Sun Java Studio at JavaOne Conference
Oakland, CA, July 1, 2004—Tom Sawyer® Software,
a leading provider of high-performance graph visualization, layout,
and analysis solutions, announced it has licensed its industry standard-setting
Tom Sawyer Visualization software to Sun Microsystems for incorporation
within the new Sun Java Studio.
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco today, Sun Microsystems
announced the new UML modeling features in its award-winning Sun
Java Studio Enterprise. Sun Java Studio is a comprehensive, integrated
development environment (IDE) that improves developer productivity
with advanced tools and technologies. In the newly released IDE,
Sun has incorporated UML modeling technology to enrich the features
offered to developers. Tom Sawyer's visualization and layout technology
is used to create and display UML diagrams and other software engineering
diagrams within the IDE. Tom Sawyer's visual displays enable software
architecture designers to define class structure, inheritance relations,
and associations efficiently.
The software engineering industry has standardized United Modeling
Language (UML) specification for software system design. Forward
engineering generates code from the UML software design specification.
Many software engineers view UML as a complex diagramming specification
that is difficult and expensive to support. Tom Sawyer's remarkable
graph layout and visualization products provide a first-class solution
to this problem.
"We have enhanced the new UML modeling features in our Sun
Java with Tom Sawyer Software's excellent layout and visualization
technology," said George Vasick, Software Engineering Manager
at Sun Microsystems. "Our comprehensive IDEs offer intuitive
and easy-to-use technologies, so naturally, the components we choose
must be advanced, mature, and meet the highest quality and performance
standards among the competitive libraries available. Tom Sawyer's
superb software technology has been truly impressive, meeting our
requirements and going above and beyond our expectations."
"We develop high-performance graph visualization and layout
technologies in order to help our customers visualize complex relationships
such as those found in software engineering applications,"
said Brendan Madden, Chief Executive Officer of Tom Sawyer Software.
"We're especially pleased to work with Sun Microsystems to
help them deliver UML modeling technology and software engineering
visualization in their Sun Java Studio product lines. The ability
to graphically design and analyze software systems will help developers
increase productivity while significantly reducing development time."
The Tom Sawyer Visualization product family provides sophisticated
graph display, viewing and editing technologies. With these products,
developers can easily add graph visualization functions to their
applications. Advanced features such as multi-level nested diagram
management and smart path routing, which are especially useful in
software engineering diagrams, are fully supported. The display
and the interactive behaviors can be customized to integrate with
particular application domain standards. Tom Sawyer Visualization
includes exceptional layout facilities to produce beautifully formatted
diagrams that clearly depict underlying structures and expose relationships.
Tom Sawyer Visualization is available in Java, MFC and ActiveX editions,
supporting a variety of operating systems and cross-platform Web
environments.
About Tom Sawyer Software
Tom Sawyer Software is the premier provider of visualization, layout, and analysis
solutions that help you make better and faster decisions. Recognized for its
robust and highly scalable technology, Tom Sawyer products are used by Global
2000 companies to build applications in a variety of industries including banking, data management, energy, engineering design, intelligence, IT, life sciences, networking, and software engineering.
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