[Uml-devel] (forw) Re: Sequence and Collaboration Diagams

[Sebastian Stein]

----- Forwarded message from Bill Lewis <bill at enobis.com> -----

From: Bill Lewis <bill at enobis.com>
Subject: Re: Sequence and Collaboration Diagams
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:08:55 -0500
To: Sebastian Stein <s5228 at informatik.htw-dresden.de>

Sebastien:

Thanks for getting back to me...  The problems/bugs were indeed related with
the Beta2 SuSE rpm.  I decided to uninstall the Beta2 rpm and build from
source, the 1.1rc1 version.

Works like a champ!

The associations in the sequence diagrams work as expected and the crash on
the collaboration is fixed as you have indicated in your message.

You guys are doing a great job here.  As we start using the app more and
more, I will probably send you some "feature enhancements" that we see would
be nice to have added - (like being able to add actors from the use cases
onto the sequence and collaboration diagrams, as well as "life-lines" for
seq. diagrams)...

Keep up the *GREAT WORK*, and we're thrilled to see PHP added to the code
generation...

Regards,
Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Stein" <s5228 at informatik.htw-dresden.de>
To: "Bill Lewis" <bill at enobis.com>
Cc: "Umbrello UML Devel List" <umbrello-devel at kde.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Sequence and Collaboration Diagams


> Bill Lewis <bill at enobis.com> [021121 18:09]:
> > Let me start by saying that Umbrello has the making of a *GREAT PROGRAM*
> > We have been searching high and low for this very type of application.
> > Have not been satisfied with the performance of ArgoUML.
>
> In the name of all Umbrello developers I like to thank you very much!
>
> > I'm a bit hesitant to download and install the release candidate tarball
> > as I have had disastrous results mixing source and RPMs on the SuSE
> > distributions (a totally separate issue).
>
> I think now there are RPMs for Suse avaible. Please have a look at the
> homepage again into the file section (sf.net/projects/uml). Maybe you
should
> also subscribe to the Umbrello announce list to get automatically informed
> about new releases and about prepackaged versions.
>
> > Anyway, I detected 2 problems/bugs and have 1 Enhancement request.
>
> I will add the first problem to the bug tracking system, so that every
> developer gets to know about it. You than can follow how we resolve the
bug
> or if we reject it.
>
> > 1.  Sequence Diagrams - When I make associations from one class to
> > another, It appears that the logic between objects and associations is
> > backwards...
> >
> > Typical UML (consistent with Rational Rose, ArgoUML, etc...):
> >
> > Class A  ---------- : test()  ---------->  Class B
> >
> > -- Class A calls operation *test* in Class B
> >
> > However with Umbrello the association logic is backwards and the
resulting
> > event actually infers that *test* is an operation in Class A...
> >
> > Unfortunately, this is enough to make us not use Umbrello at this point
in
> > time...
>
> I can't say very much about it, I think we will see what the UML gurus are
> saying about it ;-) As I said I will submit it for you.
>
> > 2.  Collaboration Diagram - After I assign an association between 2
> > objects, I right click and select "Select Operation" and Umbrello
crashes.
> >
> > We use both Sequence and Collaboration diagrams heavily when designing
our
> > apps, so these are necessary features for us.  I'm hoping that this has
> > been fixed in the release candidate or at least is an issue with our
> > setup.
>
> I think this bug have been fixed. You meant right clicking on the assoc
and
> choosing a operation?! Yes, this works now.
>
> > When Generating a class from Code, it would be nice if the initial
values
> > for variables would be included into the model.
>
> You mean parsing existing C++ code and getting the initial value? Well, I
> have to say this isn't very easy. The whole parsing code isn't very good
and
> I think we can't improve it till the 1.1 release.
>
> Steinchen
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