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I was searching for free UML diagraming tools/plugins for Eclipse and I tried out
ArgoUML
http://argouml.tigris.org/
- It’s alright
- Does the job
Eclipse UML2 with no UML2 tools meaning no GUI
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/
- Too hardcore for me
- Zero boxes and lines
- Just all tag markup
Papyrus for UML
http://www.papyrusuml.org/
- Very cumbersome to use
- Did not like the # of clicks it took to [...]

Recently, I’ve built the client side of a J2EE Transfer Object pattern implementation and it composes a number of value objects. I was going to shape the VO’s like in Darron Schall’s Book VO used in his “Convert Generic Objects into Class Instances” article (good read I might add). The VO consists of an object [...]

Some links I pulled up to learn more about the topic….
http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=17&thread=4795
http://www.bitchwhocodes.com/archives/2006/04/singleton_vs_st.html
http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=012004