[Uml-devel] kdesdk/umbrello/umbrello

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Mathias Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 23 February 2003 23:13 Jonathan Riddell wrote:

> > Not sure how best to implement this in XMI, currently it's just a made
> > up element <template> inside <UML:Class>, I can't see what it should be
> > from the XMI/UML dtd but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

> It's kind of weird. I took a look at it too and also looked at some common
> tools to find out, how they export templates. Summary goes like this:
> Poseidon: no support for templates
> Argo/UML: dito

Ah good, glad I'm not going blind in my examining of the DTD or trying to
use Argo.

> Together: supports templates but does not export them into xmi files.

I couldn't get Together (6) to do templates, how is it done?

> If I can, I'll check what Rose has to say about that, since it seems the
> only way to find out the correct element.
>
> Either the OMG chose a reilly awkward name for a template or they did not
> think of that, since Java users don't need them that often. But I really
> can't imagine, why they would do that.

They're called Paramaterised Classes in UML.  Java calls the
Generics, or will do when they exist.

Thanks for that

Jonathan Riddell