Responding to Riemenschneider... ... By that I just meant models that were using the profile properly (i.e., complete, precise, and unambiguous enough for full...
Responding to Bestler... ... I agree, as I mentioned elsewhere; that's why I've used quotes for "clock" in this thread. ... Which are the minimum constraints...
In the recently published book "MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise" by Anneke Kleppe, Jos Warmer and Wim Bast, there is an...
There was a bit of a mantra at last week's OMG meeting: "There is no Action Semantics Language. There are only action semantics." The real question here is...
... I am in full agreement. ... Properly understood, state machines are a clear and expressive form of specification for almost all domains. They are not ...
MessageThe authors of "MDA Explained" seem to favour an elaborationist approach. Their view is that it is better to use pre- and post-conditions (specified in...
... Generally I would agree. The area I can see a difference would involve corner cases where the developer is not being very prudent in the first place, as...
Responding to McNeile... I think Balcer's response reflected remarkable constraint. B-) ... Clearly they belong to the Interface Camp. An unfortunately large...
... No, but I'll comment anyway. :-) ... Obviously, it's not possible. From what I can tell from the OptimalJ web site, the class diagram just provides a...
... directly, ... Maybe this quote from Shlaer and Mellor's "Synchronous Services" is helpful, "it is important to remember that what we are actually ...
... Agreed. The above code has introduced ambiguity into its execution. Now it's easy to say "well don't do that", but the more serious implication is that you...
... When I look to this case study it seems all is derived from only the class diagram, nothing is said about behaviour. Also the three PSM's which follow are...
Responding to Dzilvelis... ... As the other responses to that message indicated, the authors of the book apparently are using an elaborationist model rather...
Responding to Bestler... ... I agree, it reflects a very fundamental difference in viewpoints. However, I would point out that whether the system is...
... Yes, I think this what it does. I too tried downloading the demo version of OptimalJ (all 91 Mb). I was able to generate the Rosa system and execute it. I...
Editor's note: I'm putting Ashley's post out here to stimulate a discussion about products' support for MDA, executable modeling, completeness, etc. I will...
... Some thoughts on the broader context of such an evaluation... Most of my work tends to be in heavily embedded environments. So I have gotten used to...
Responding to McNeile... ... Clearly this should not happen (i.e., both that you had an error and that you couldn't figure out what to do without accessing the...
In my opinion, the best approach is missing from the list - use directly domain concepts as language constructs and then generate code from these higher...
Thanks for the great post. Time is short, so I will be succinct and owe the group a larger posting--or many replies. I completely agree that "plain" UML...
Responding to Tolvanen... ... I think there are two different issues here. One is that their UML-OCL option is based upon elaboration and assumes the...
... subsystem ... It should be noted that the interface (or facade if you prefer) can be as thin as you want it to be. A benefit of translation is the removal ...
Responding to Riemenschneider... ... True. But I see this is an implementation optimization for the translation engine. The existence of the bridge in the...
Hi, I have two very simple questions that I would very much appreciate if someone could answer. What are the best available exec UML tool if I would like to...
I forwarded this to our sales/marketing folk, and got this reply. I'm sending it on to the group so you know the state of the market at least from this end. ...
Stephen J. Mellor
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Hi Steve - ... I'm glad to hear that you guys are getting into this end of it. I'm sure some people will also be interested to hear that Pathfinder Solutions...
Question for H.S. ... ... I am a bit lost here. Does RAD here stand for "Rapid Applications Development"? If so, this is (I think) a technique rather than an...
Responding to McNeile... ... That is what I meant. (BTW, USER = Update, Sort, Extract, Report.) While RAD is a technique it is built around semi-automation of...
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