No Magic Announces .NET Technology and Eclipse Platform Support in MagicDraw UML

During the year 2002 MagicDraw(TM) UML will provide code engineering for MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) and C# as starting features for .NET support and integration with IBMs Eclipse 2.0 Integrated Development Environment.

Golden, Colorado -- March 12, 2002. No Magic, Inc ® today has announced MagicDraw(TM) UML support for .NET technology and Eclipse platform. MagicDraw UML is No Magics visual UML modeling and CASE tool with teamwork support. This development tool is designed to increase productivity for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers and Documentation Writers. The tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented systems and databases. MagicDraw supports the latest standards of Java, UML and XMI and provides the industry's best code engineering mechanism, with full round-trip support for Java, C++ and CORBA IDL programming languages. MagicDraw also provides database schema modeling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities. MagicDraw UML is one of the few UML modeling tools supporting all 9 UML diagrams and checking of diagram semantics.

MagicDraw will introduce .NET technology support in the next two releases

MagicDraw 5.5 will include Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) reverse engineering capabilities. Users will have a possibility to reverse executable files that are compiled for .NET platform and get the OO model. Code can be written and compiled with Visual Basic, C#, Visual C++, JScript, or one of many non-Microsoft compilers such as an Eiffel or COBOL compiler.
Expected version release date is June 2002.

MagicDraw 6.0 will include C# reverse engineering and code generation capabilities - a great addition to existing Java, C++, and IDL code engineering features.
Expected version release date is October 2002.

MagicDraw 5.5 will integrate with Eclipse 2.0

MagicDraw 5.5 will have integration with Eclipse -- IBMs popular IDE. Users will have a possibility to tie a model and source code, still working with favorite IDE, and having an instant update of the model while coding and vice versa.
At the moment MagicDraw is integrated with Borlands JBuilder and Suns Forte.

The new integration allows users to benefit from increased productivity during analysis, design, development, testing, documentation, and deployment stages. Using MagicDraw, Java developers have the capability to visualize and model their software, and then rapidly develop them with Eclipse.

No Magic is proud to provide the extension to Eclipse - IBMs rapidly evolving integrated development environment, empowering it with the powerful UML modeling support. This is great news for all Eclipse fans. Now they will be able to visualize their model and design in MagicDraw, one of the best modeling tools in the market, and write their code in Eclipse with seamless synchronization. ", said Paul Duncanson, CEO, No Magic, Inc.

Additional information about No Magics products and development services can be obtained by visiting one of our web sites at: http://www.magicdraw.com or http://www.nomagic.com, by emailing contacts@magicdraw.com, or calling our National Sales and Support Office at (972) 527-9377. Additional sales and corporate information may be obtained from No Magics Corporate Headquarters by calling (303) 215-9955 option 2, then ext. 3.