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Re: UML
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Marcus G. Daniels |
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Re: UML |
Date: |
07 Jul 2000 06:25:21 -0700 |
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>>>>> "PT" == Pietro Terna <address@hidden> writes:
PT> In my opinion UML is a good tool to describe models as
PT> software structures (in an enterprise environment, for example);
PT> I'm not sure that this kind of formalism could be completely
PT> usefule where we have to develop, with our simulation models) not
PT> a 'world' but 'a metaphor of a world'.
I think that could work. I once developed a UML project in Rational Rose.
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/users-contrib/anarchy/anl-0.0.4.tar.gz
See xml/swarm.mdl for a description of heatbugs. MDL is Rational's
ad-hoc file-format for UML.
On the plus side, UML parameterized classes work fine for the
+createBegin:-createEnd kind of instantiation.
But one problem I have with UML is that it has a bunch of notation that I
think would never be used by Swarm users, in practice. Another
problem is all that notation maps to a really complicated XML format
called XMI that (last time I checked a few months ago), isn't very
well-documented and for which there isn't a good freely-available
support library.
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- UML, Pietro Terna, 2000/07/07
- Re: UML,
Marcus G. Daniels <=