I used VASgen for a while. It was great but kind of showed its bones when you’d want to move a class from one package to another. For large, complex projects, I eventually turned to a trial of Enterprise Architect. The learning curve was a bit steep (as was the price tag), but I eventually bought a Professional copy. I now use it for all of my modelling. And I’m finding that I am writing more class-based code now than before I had a UML modelling tool that output stub code.

The interface is pretty foreign. Adding attributes (properties) and operations (methods) feels very heavy-handed. It’s bured a couple of levels deep. And they don’t share the same window. Overall though, I’m really happy with it.

I still have hopes that Saffron will see the light of day.