SDMetrics 2.5 introduces a new, simpler license model. Previously, you could download a free demo version of SDMetrics that has no data export, and purchase a full version of SDMetrics with data export and free updates for two years. Universities and non-profit research institutes could apply for a free academic license of the full version of SDMetrics.

Looking at the ratio of academic to commercial licenses that I have doled out over the years, the time I spent to manually process the academic license requests, and the more recent trend in sales of commercial licenses, I have concluded that, at this time, it is simpler to just make the SDMetrics full version freely available to everybody:

• Academic users get their software faster.
• Commercial users continue to receive updates of SDMetrics even after two years.
• I can take vacations without having to check my e-mails regularly.

A classic case of Win-Win-Win. To celebrate this major project milestone, the new version also adds data export to Microsoft Excel XLSX files. And fixes a cosmetic problem with clipped axis labels on some diagrams if you are using a large font size. You are invited to go ahead and get your free copy of SDMetrics 2.5.

Over the past eight years, SDMetrics V2.3 has received just a few maintenance releases with adjustments to new XMI versions, modern high resolution displays, and some small functional enhancements to the XMI parser. During these eight years, the SDMetrics implementation also stuck with Java 1.6 as its development platform. The extended support for Java 1.6… [Continue reading]

I have just released an updated set of project files for UML and SysML. The update resolves a problem when parsing XMI files that conform to the rules of Canonical XMI. Canonical XMI The XML document production rules of the XMI 2.x standards leave tool developers quite a few options how an object model can… [Continue reading]

SDMetrics V2.31 was released today. This is a maintenance release that addresses some issues with the XMI import. Automatic recognition of XMI 2.4/2.4.1 files Ever since XMI 1.0, the XMI standards mandated a “version” attribute in the root element of the XMI file to indicate the XMI version of the file. It was simple and… [Continue reading]