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With the release of NetBeans 6.5, we will officially stop all new feature development on NetBeans UML. The UML effort for NetBeans 7.0 will focus completely on bug fixing. Please see UML70 for additional details.

This decision was taken after matching our resources with the overall roadmap and priorities.

The current UML offering, which is robust and relatively comprehensive, is enough to satisfy the needs of most developers. For more advanced capabilities that would appeal to the expert user and the enterprise, we believe it would be of more value to work with our partners to provide the NetBeans community with credible complimentary offerings.

We are partnering with Visual Paradigm, a strategic NetBeans partner and an industry leader in this space, to provide a solution for those who need these additional capabilities beyond what is provided by the NetBeans UML plugin. SDE for NetBeans from Visual Paradigm provides a wide range of enterprise class features including:

• Importing existing NetBeans UML projects
• Full UML 2.0 support
• Team collaboration capabilities
• Code generation for Java, C++, PHP and more

Learn more at Visual Paradigm SDE for NetBeans

NetBeans will continue to offer and support the existing UML functionality. The UML code is available on netbeans.org and community members can create new features or enhancements. NetBeans will also assist with any community development effort behind UML.