[Uml-devel] Re: Umbrello design (was UML XML tree viewer)

[Sebastian Stein]

Andrew Sutton <ansutton at kent.edu> [021108 16:28]:
> > wait a sec!, this seems to be the first point we need to clear...
> > do we want Umbrello to be a "universal Modeling tool" or do we want it to
> > be a "UML Modeling tool" ??
> > And... if the answer is to go for the whole thing, then, do we want to do
> > it all in one step, or first get UML and then "generalize" it untill we get
> > MOF?
> 
> ah. therein lies the proble, johnny :) actually, a truly compliant UML 
> implementation will include MOF. the real question is: do we design for 
> generality or do we design for specifically for UML? in my thinking, UML is 
> just another (albeit quite complex) modeling language - and we have other 
> metamodels to work with: particularly CWM.

But couldn't we separate the work in such pieces that:

a) everybody could follow understand the development
b) get quick small but motivating results

Steinchen
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