[Uml-devel] Brief intro

[Andrew Sutton]

On Friday 17 January 2003 8:22 pm, Fred Roberts wrote:
> Hello, I am Fred.  I am an Electrical Engineer.

hi fred. glad you could join :)

i was actually thinking about something similar to this the other day. version 
2.0 of umbrello is going to be exceedingly generic. the way we're designing 
2.0, UML is only going to be a small potential subset of what we can actually 
use to build diagrams. other areas include OMG standards for warehousing (CWM 
- "common warehousing model") and process modeling (SPEM) - including a 
number of profiles for UML.

the reason this works is that all of these standards (UML, SPEM and CWM) are 
all defined by something called the MOF. its basically the classes that are 
used to make modeling languages. it should be quite possible to design an MOF 
specification for EE stuff (chip design, circuit layout, etc). i really don't 
know anything about that stuff.

you wouldn't really need a separate language for implementing this. you could 
use OCL (object constraint language) within a metamodel specification to 
validate your designs or circuits. maybe. i don't know the requirements.

always nice to have another helping hand :)

andy