PlantUML
Open-source software tool / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about PlantUML?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing users to create diagrams from a plain text language. Besides various UML diagrams, PlantUML has support for various other software development related formats (such as Archimate, Block diagram, BPMN, C4, Computer network diagram, ERD, Gantt chart, Mind map, and WBD), as well as visualisation of JSON and YAML files.
Original author(s) | Arnaud Roques |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Arnaud Roques[1] |
Initial release | 17 April 2009 (2009-04-17)[2] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Linux, OS X, Windows |
Type | UML tool |
License | GNU General Public License |
Website | plantuml |
Filename extension |
.pu, .puml, .txt[4] |
---|---|
Type of format | Textual |
The language of PlantUML is an example of a domain-specific language.[5] Besides its own DSL, PlantUML also understands AsciiMath, Creole, DOT, and LaTeX. It uses Graphviz software to lay out its diagrams and Tikz for LaTeX support. Images can be output as PNG, SVG, LaTeX and even ASCII art. PlantUML has also been used to allow blind people to design and read UML diagrams.[6][7]