It was an internationalized product, compliant with UML 1.4, and claiming to support the Object Management Group's MDA approach.

The software evolved over several years as open source project and was recognized as an MDA tool with a capability to assist in reverse-engineering existing code.

The South Korean company MKLabs publishes since 2014 the new versions of StarUML and licenses them under a commercial proprietary scheme.

[9]  The application can also export manually selected fragments of a model into separate files with having the .mdf extension and import them back.

A study[10] published in 2017 by the IEEE and the ACM has analysed the main software products used for the teaching of modeling.

It addresses various issues most notably related to handling recent version of Windows and modern screen resolutions.

Reasons cited include the difficulty of working in Delphi, as well as the lack of community interest in supporting the project development.