PlantUML

• Diagramming
• supports:
  • Svg (see https://plantuml.com/svg)

Features

• plantuml embeds the source code in SVGs

📈 Supported Non-UML Diagrams

Create well-structured UML diagrams including but not limited to:

• Sequence diagram
• Usecase diagram
• Class diagram
• Object diagram
• Activity diagram (Beta) (Find the legacy syntax here)
• Component diagram
• Deployment diagram
• State diagram
• Timing diagram

📈 Supported Non-UML Diagrams

Beyond UML, PlantUML supports a range of other diagrams such as:

• JSON data
• YAML data
• EBNF diagram
• Regex diagram
• Network diagram (nwdiag)
• UI mockups (salt)
• Archimate diagram
• Specification and Description Language (SDL)
• Ditaa diagram
• Gantt diagram
• Chronology diagram
• MindMap diagram
• WBS diagram
• Mathematics with AsciiMath or JLaTeXMath notation
• Information Engineering diagram
• Entity Relationship diagram

Learning Resource

• https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/
• https://blog.dornea.nu/2023/07/30/documentation-as-code-for-cloud-plantuml/
• https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/
• http://real-world-plantuml.com/

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Backlinks

• C4-PlantUML
• Pumla
• Structurizr