Astah Plug-in Development Tutorial

With the Astah plug-in architecture, you can add your own functions to Astah, including menus and extra views in the Astah GUI.

This tutorial shows how to develop plug-ins for Astah, with a few samples.

Astah Plug-in architecture

When you launch Astah, it loads all the plug-in files in the plugins folder of the Astah installation folder. Plug-in files must be .jar files packaged as OSGi bundles, because Astah’s Plug-ins architecture uses OSGi Runtime.

The Astah Plug-in SDK packages your plug-in as an OSGi bundle automatically, and lets you run it in Astah during development without copying it into the plugins folder. Now let’s set up the environment to develop plug-ins!

System Requirements

Below is a list of software for which you can develop plug-ins. The system requirements (OS and Java version) for developing and running plug-ins are the same as the respective software versions’ system requirements.

Set up the development environment

Choose your edition:

• Astah Professional
• Astah UML
• Astah System Safety
• Astah SysML