Released on = June 20, 2007, 12:06 pm

Press Release Author = Excel Software

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Excel Software is shipping MacA&D OSX 2.2 for system and
software modeling, requirement management, code generation, reengineering and
project reports. This major release supports PHP design and code generation plus
enhanced requirement management, diagram generation and editing. The new Global
Search dialog scans thousands of text files and folders in seconds for matching text
or wildcard patterns.

Press Release Body = Excel Software is shipping MacA&D OSX 2.2 for system and
software modeling, requirement management, code generation, reengineering and
project reports. This major release supports PHP design and code generation plus
enhanced requirement management, diagram generation and editing. The new Global
Search dialog scans thousands of text files and folders in seconds for matching text
or wildcard patterns.

PHP is a modern scripting language for procedural and object-oriented programming.
It drives popular web sites that often grow into large-scale development projects.
MacA&D adds PHP code generation from class diagrams and structure charts. Often PHP
programs provide the glue between web pages and a database engine. Data models can
be drawn in MacA&D to design a database and generate the SQL schema.

Code generation capabilities in MacA&D have been enhanced for other languages
including C, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, C++, Objective-C, Java, Delphi and SQL. New
customization options give the developer control over content and format of
generated code, how code files are named and where they are stored. One click on
the Generate Code button creates code from selected objects on a class or structure
model.

Requirement entries are defined as structured information in a Requirement
Definition dialog controlled by a template with user-defined field and value
choices. MacA&D 2.2 enables template changes to be applied across existing entries.
Requirement entries can be checked for missing or inconsistent data. Entries can
be linked to any kind of target document, diagram or specific diagram objects to
provide two-way traceability. New capabilities simplify linking and navigating
between many requirement entries and targets. The enhanced Requirement Matrix
window presents data through user-defined views and queries.

Diagram editors for process, state, structure, class, data, object and task models
have been enhanced with a new geometric shape tool, new caption properties, grid
lines, scroll wheel support and an object size synchronization dialog. The new
Shape Properties dialog supports 48 geometric shapes, border color, fill color,
shadows and line thickness. Text can be added and positioned within each shape.

Designers control class members (attributes, operations, properties and events) and
details (access, data type and arguments) displayed on class diagrams with checkbox
options and presentation rules. To enhance productivity, detail dialogs now have Up
and Down buttons to navigate between class members.

MacA&D is a Universal Binary application for Intel or PPC based Macintosh computers.
The Standard edition is $495, Desktop edition is $1195 and Developer edition is
$1995. See www.excelsoftware.com for information.

Web Site = http://www.excelsoftware.com

Contact Details = Excel Software
Ph: (505) 771-3719
Fax: (505) 771-3718
Web: www.excelsoftware.com
Email: info@excelsoftware.com