I still see UML as a blueprint in my industry (safety critical software), MagicDraw is one tool rising in prominence, Enterprise Architect is another. I definit

I still see UML as a blueprint in my industry (safety critical software), MagicDraw is one tool rising in prominence, Enterprise Architect is another. I definitely have seen a decline in UML for code generation. (I forget if the tools I mention have code generator capability but I generally don’t see them used if they do) Interestingly I have seen a steady uptake in model driven development with code generation but it tends to be in tools like SCADE or Simulink, tools that are not directly object oriented but are more traditionally model oriented (code generation wise I believe these both generate C code). I think one problem with UML as code generation is that the relationship between the model and the code can be constraining and many domain experts do not think in terms of classes and objects. By the way, I do like the concept of UML as generating a code shell that gets filled in and modified, anyone have any open source recommendations for that? Preferably something that can integrate with Java and Spring