• https://www.java.com/en/download/

GraphViz is an open-source graph visualization software. It provides a program called dot. This dot program is able to generate a directed graph from a textual description.

You will need to add the path to the Graphviz bin directory to the PATH variable.

1. Install Docker (Linux) or Docker-Desktop (Windows). If not included, install Docker Compose.
2. Clone the “HSE PlantUML Server” docker compose script with git clone git@gitlab.com:hampel-soft/hse-labs/hse-plantuml-server.git.
3. Open a terminal in the project folder.
4. Execute docker-compose up -d (für Compose v2: docker compose up -d)
5. Open a browser and type in http://localhost:8123. The PlantUML site with an input field and some example code should be displayed.

1. in docker webinterface register & download plantuml/plantuml-server
2. under image start image
3. configure a local port
4. create firewall rule for that port in synology DS
5. [create port forwarding rule for that port in router]

1. Install the extension “PlantUML”.
2. Go to the extension settings and make the following changes:

   • Renderer: “PlantUMLServer”
   • Server: “http://localhost:8123” (or another server URL).
3. Open a new file and add a PlantUML script. Open the preview windows by pressing Alt + D.

1. install java
2. Download plantuml.jar
3. Download PlantUML_Notepad-_UDL (optional)
4. move UDL to folder for import
5. %AppData%\Notepad++\userDefineLangs
6. restart notepad++
7. create plantuml.bat
8. menu execute –> run external program insert cmd PathToYour\PlantUML\plantuml.bat “$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)”

content of plantuml.bat

   @echo off
   java -jar Z:\plantUML\plantuml.jar -charset UTF-8 -o "C:\Users\ae\Pictures" %1