Sorry that I have been away for so long. I will try to catch up a little. The UML module has been moved to NetBeans 5.5. Today, the module has finally been moved to the NetBeans 5.5 beta update center. In the this release the reverse engineering module is much faster. In our example applicatoin (which is the UML core module), we have over 3000 java files. We are now able to reverse engineer the module in around 6 minutes. That is a significant improvement over the previous releases.

We also have a new web report. In previous releases of Java Studio Enterprise, the web report was quite awkward to use. The new web report is much more easier. We have choosen to format our reports after JavaDoc.

On a sad note, we hav taken out live round trip. We decided to take out live round trip for a number of reasons. One major reason was because it did not work as well as we liked. Also, we where using the NetBeans Java Model, in NetBeans 6.0 the Java model will be taken out of NetBeans. The Java Editor will not be built on top of the Jackpot project. In the end NetBeans will have a much more robust editor (check out Jan Lahoda's blog about improved coloring, and about improved code completion), but for the UML team it means that we would have to rewrite our live round trip mechanism. Because of these two reasons, we decided that it would be best to take out the round trip component for now. In later releases we plan to put it back into the tool, but it will most likely take the form of a batch round trip instead of a live round trip.

We have also fixed a number of bugs, and worked on a number of usability features. Check out our NetBeans module web page.