Dear All

Subscribers to this list may remember some exchanges between myself and others
(notably my friend, H.S. Lahman) on the use of state machine modelling in the
context of MDA. As a result of these exchanges, I was prompted to think through
my ideas and try and explain them better. The article below was the result.

I think the bottom line is that there is more than one way of using state
machines to describe behaviour, and that the approach used within Executable UML
is only one. Certainly the ideas we have been using, as described in the
article, as the basis for executable modelling is significantly different from
Executable UML.

Perhaps this article will allow us to open up a wider debate on the different
ways that state machines can be used for modelling behaviour. I certainly hope
so.

Rgds
Ashley

Ashley McNeile
Metamaxim Ltd.
email: ashley.mcneile@...
web: www.metamaxim.com

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