Best Class Diagram generator (not eclipse plugin)

Question

I am looking for a stand alone class diagram generator that takes the root folder as input and generates the class diagram. Share some of the best tools you might have used.

Answer 1

Magic Draw is pretty good: https://www.magicdraw.com/. You can use it as an Eclipse plug-in or as a stand-alone program. It can do round-tripping (class files to UML and UML to class files).

Answer 2

you can try using BOUML; it is open source and although its developer announced in September 2010 that he ceased to develop BOUML, it seems to me that he still does bug fixing.

Answer 3

In my MsC I discovered StarUML. It was a very efficient open source tool however, its developing seems stopped.

It accepts UML 2.0 completely. You must try it.

http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

Answer 4

I have used UMLGraph once, it requires GraphViz. It includes a doclet so you can include the generated UML diagrams in your Javadoc. It hasn't been updated in a while, though.

Answer 5

I've used ArgoUML, but it has some problems with generating relations between classes. Perhaps, it's open-source and comfortable for non-large projects.