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Do you ever have the feeling that you've spent lots of money for a developer tool without gaining the productivity boost you were hoping for? Do you find it hard to track the status of your development against the project requirements? Does it seem difficult, keeping your design and implementation in-sync so that you can generate accurate documentation? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then probably you are using the wrong tool!

Visual Paradigm Suite is designed to address the above issues, and more. Visual Paradigm Suite is a group of software that helps accelerates your development throughout the software development life-cycle. It provides extensive support to modeling, coding and deployment so that you and your developers can work in a disciplined way, and different specialists inside your team can work in a collaborative manner. This article will introduce different units of the Visual Paradigm Suite one by one.

Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML)
VP-UML is an UML CASE tools that combines professional UML modeling, advanced code engineering and excellent interoperability into a single development platform. Its easy to use interface make the modeling task become more natural thus increase the productivity. The IDE Integration capabilities transform your design into implementation. The documentation generation facilities help you to create professional report for your project.

Smart Development Environment (SDE)
SDE is a variation of VP-UML which embedded into your favorite IDE, including Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, JBuilder, NetBeans, Sun Studio Enterprise, IntelliJ IDEA, JDeveloper and WebLogic Workshop. With the streamlined design and development environment, developers can perform all the modeling and implementation task inside a unified environment thus greatly enhance the productivity and reduce the learning curve for the new environment.

DB Visual Architect (DB-VA)
Data Persistence is one of the most important aspects in software development. DB-VA provides a sophisticated UML Class Diagram and ER Diagram for modeling the mapping between OO and Relational view. DB-VA also generates a cost-effective, reliable, scalable and high-performance object to relational mapping layer which increases the productivity and reduces the risk of developing it manually significantly.

Benefits:

• Usability does matter:
  Productivity is never be increased by complicated application. We do concern the usability and that's why we introduce many features not just satisfying technical needs but also the user experience.
• UML 2.0 Support:
  UML 2.0 is the major trend in software development. The improved architectural support makes it more towards the model driven approach. VP Suite provides extensive support to UML 2.0 by cover all the diagrams and notations.
• True Integrated Development Environment:
  VP Suites makes your favorite IDE becomes the true Integrated Develop-ment Environment by covering the whole software development life-cycle. VP Suite provides support to requirement capturing, analysis and design and the models can be generated into source code for simplifying the implementation. Changes in model or source code are always synchronized.
• Sophisticated Object-Relational Mapping Generator:
  The mapping layer generated by VP Suite incorporates prime features such as transaction support, pluggable cache layer, connection pool and customizable SQL statement. This helps developers keep away from mundane implementation work and focus on business requirements.
• Enterprise JavaBeans Support (EJB):
  EJB enables distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications deployment. Programming in EJB is complicated task. VP Suite simplifies the EJB development. The Beans can be developed by drawing stereotyped class diagram or reversing database.
• Model Driven Development:
  VP Suite provides a true model driven platform for your development. You can either start from creating models using class diagram or ER diagram and then generate the executable persistence layer, or perform modification on existing database at the model level by reversing the database into ER models or further transform into Class model. With our leading code generator, your persistent model will update automatically according to your modification.
• Extensive Database Coverage:
  VP Suite supports a wide range of database, including Oracle, DB2, Cloudscape/Derby, Sybase ASE, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and more.

VP Suite is available for a free 30-day trial at www.visual-paradigm.com.