Hi, I am a student at ANU currently doing my FYP using xtuml. One of the problems our team found out there is no information about creating a software system...
Responding ti Jin... ... Generally most of the translation tools offer at least some degree of customization for external documentation. That is because ...
In order to put this thread in context and because it may be of interest to readers of this group, I have put together a brief overview of what we are doing...
Hi Shayne, I am very much impressed with the classes offered at ANU especially for xtUML. Shayne, I am working on a midsize project where I am building a ...
I just read an article in the Sept/Oct 2003 issue of IEEE Software, where the authors reference the Executable UML book by Mellor and Balcer. The reference is...
Responding to Riemenschneider... ... I suspect it is the CORBA perspective where all the world's problems can be solved with better mapping interfaces. IOW,...
Hi there, I just spoke with the publisher and they say they don't put out anything on the web until 120 days before publication. As we're talking March...
Stephen J. Mellor
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Dear All While we are on the subject, there is another book planned for publication in 2004. The following quotes from the Cambridge University Press web site:...
Most QVT folk are defining languages that focus on issues like pattern matching and its output-oriented analog, transformation composition. In a perfect...
Stephen J. Mellor
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I'm not so sure that such claims can be so easily dismissed. From my reading of the Executable UML text .. one of the things that isn't really well addressed...
Responding ti Jin... ... I assume by 'xtuml' you are referring to a particular tool (as I recall from Kennedy-Carter). I am only familiar with their older...
Hi, I've been getting up to speed with MDA et al so still fairly new to me. I worked on a Windows based business process workflow system several years ago with...
... Wow! This post really gives me a feeling of deja vu. ;-) ... Actually, Project Technology, Inc. has been using xtuml. Kennedy Carter has been using xUML....
... reading ... implementation ... homeomorphic ... This should be left to the application independent "model". For example, I proposed to one model compiler...
... Perhaps I meant the "translationist" approach. As I see it, both "translationist" and "elaborationist" interpretations of MDA are emerging. For instance,...
Responding to Romanus... ... eUML advocates a two-dimensional view of application partitioning rather than a one-dimensional layered model. The layered model...
Sorry if this is a silly question but I'm new to this. Do any of the model compiler vendors allow import/export of XMI? I would like to get application...
... approach. ;-) ... You misunderstood my remark. I meant considering that Stephen Mellor is one of the authors of the 'Model-Driven Architecture Distilled' ...
Hi Doug - ... The Springboard Model Transformation Engine in the Pathfinder Solutions UML Essentials product takes XMI as input, and may be able to meet your...
Not a silly question at all! But one word of warning: XMI actually functions at the meta-level, not the model level. In other words, any metamodel may have an...
Marc J. Balcer
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... another ... bits or ... [SNIP] ... in the ... One has to wonder if it would even be desirable to try to import a model that contains UML constructs outside...
Hi Marc - Thanks for the excellent review of the interchange issues regarding XMI. I come at these issues from perhaps a different perspective. ... ...
Thanks Marc, that helps a lot. But there's obviously a lot that still needs doing and I'm surprised if no-one is doing it yet. If Executable UML is the `next...
... That's not a bad error message... But sometimes there are things that people put in their UML models as supplemental information/documentation that can be...