Designer include support for UML?
No. Oracle9i Designer is essentially an Information Engineering (IE) tool while UML is based on the requirements of Object Oriented programming. These two paradigms are sufficiently different to make integration distinctly problematic, not only technically, but from a methodological and usability standpoint. It is extremely unlikely that developers would ever mix these two approaches, or sets of techniques, in a single project. There are also several technical issues that justify reserving Oracle9i Designer for IE modeling and Oracle9i JDeveloper for UML modeling: • Oracle9i Designer runs only on Windows while Oracle9i JDeveloper, written in 100% Java, runs on any platform that supports a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). • Oracle9i Designer is a meta-data repository-based tool. Recreating the UML model and a meta-model in the Designer repository would be an extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive effort, and could potentially impact the robustness and stability of the current produc