[Uml-devel] CASE tools and IDEs

[Andrew Sutton]

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 6:09 pm, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> Yes, those profiles extend the UML metamodel so that you can easily model
> domain specific things. You could always do this with stereotypes, but the
> advantage of metamodel extensions is, that you have not only new elements
> to model with, but like the "normal" UML elements, they have well-defined
> semantics.

profiles are sets of stereotypes, not metamodel extensions. there really 
aren't a whole lot of things that you'd need metamodel extensions for - 
aspect oriented programming extensions are a good example.

andy