[Uml-devel] UML2?

[Andrew Sutton]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 11:46 am, GERARD Sebastien 166342 wrote:
> Dear Umbrello dev,
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> Do you plan to go to the UML2 specification?
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> If yes, do you any schedule in mind?
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the uml2 standards aren't really ready for prime time just yet. i'd hold off 
for about a year before getting seriously involved with them. they're still 
working out some issues and they haven't published the xmi specifications of 
the various components yet - i hope they do soon.

> I ask for these questions, because with some other colleague, we plan to do
> also an open source free tool for the UML2.
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> Whos is the architect of the tool?

there should be a number of components to any tool that implements these 
standards. my thesis project revolves around a complete implementation of the 
data models for the uml 1.x family of standards (including mof and xmi) - no 
ui stuff at all. it's called the open modeling framework (OMF) and the 
"pre-pre-pre alpha" can be found at http://www.cs.kent.edu/~asutton. its my 
hope that umbrello adopts the omf as the underlying object models for some 
future release.

i haven't decided whether or not i'm going to extend my work to cover the uml2 
family of standards. i think there are enough differences between 1.x and 2.0 
that it would require a complete rewrite. I know the internal structure of 
the object models has changed significantly.

> Is there any doc specifying the inside of the tools or helping to develop
> adding for the tool?
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> What is the technologies used to develop it?

no docs just yet. i've been waiting til i get to a stable release before i 
start working on the programmer's manual for my stuff. certainly no docs for 
2.0.

i will say this... the uml standards favor languages like java and c# for 
implementation. coding these object models in c++ poses some significant 
challenges.

andrew sutton
asutton at cs.kent.edu