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PlantUML is very powerful when you would like to create standard UML diagrams.
But I currently think about using PlantUML to document EIP routes (like the routes on these images: https://www.google.de/search?q=camel+route&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch).
This would be pretty easy if you could specify another image instead of normal boxes for a class. Something like an SVG or WMF image or a shape script as in Sparx Enterprise Architect.
The only custom images I found in the documentation where those tiny sprites...
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A Sprite is a small graphic element that can be used in diagrams. In PlantUML, sprites are monochrome and can have either 4, 8 or 16 gray level. To define a sprite, you have to use a hexadecimal digit between 0 and F per pixel. Then you can use the sprite using <$XXX> where XXX is the name of the sprite.
PlantUML is free and open source and will always be. So PlantUML can occasionally display sponsored or advertising messages. Those messages are usually generated on welcome or error images and never on fonctional diagrams.
From PlantUML's Language Reference Guide
11.6 Legacy HTML
Some HTML tags are also working:
<img:file> : the file must be accessible by the filesystem
<img:http://url> : the URL must be available from the Internet
It appears that it shouldn't be a problem. There is also a PlantUML Word Plug-in, that would possibly enable you to paste images over the default ones otherwise.
The following PlantUML code renders a simple diagram - the referenced images have to be in the proper location...
object "inbound message" as m1
object "XML Splitter" as s1
m1 : <img:MessageIcon.gif>
s1 : <img:SplitterIcon.gif>
m2 : <img:MessageIcon.gif>
m1 -> s1
s1 -> m2
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plantuml-icon-font-sprites allows using font-awesome icons within plantuml. It's awesome!
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