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Call for action: set UML free!
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... and release it to the web. UML is now generally accepted as the standard modelling language in the industry, but its presence on the internet is non existing. UML users are tight to their deskt…

Tagged: webuml, online, web, UML

Started this discussion. Last reply by Christophe VG Jan 18.

What do you think about the SEMAT initiative by Ivar Jacobson and others?
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Last month I had the honour to be among one of the first to hear Ivar speak about his new initiative SEMAT at Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium. I think it is really a great initiative that will hopefully h…

Tagged: SEMAT, Methodology

Started this discussion. Last reply by Vlad VARNICA Dec. 2, 2009.

(Modelling) Method documentation tool
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At my current client we are in the process of documenting the modelling method. At the moment we have some Word documents scattered around the intranet and some network drives, we have a partial meta…

Tagged: Documentation, Method, Modelling

Started this discussion. Last reply by Juha-Pekka Tolvanen May 31.

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Juha-Pekka Tolvanen replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

We at MetaCase have tried to automate documentation part and make it always up-to-date. In practice this means in MetaEdit+ tool that: 1) In metamodel the elements have entries for documentation. 2) When modeling the entries form the language help (…

May 31

Xavier Seignard replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

I agree with you Vlad (sic)! The documentation must be as close as possible of the metamodel. So comments in the metamodel is a good way to do it. With a past client, we also put hypertext links on the metamodel elements to get a more detailed info…

May 31

Lothar Behrens replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

I have another idea to the output generating stuff. Could it be easy enough to transform an UML model into a database representation? Are there any tools that cope with that step? Then any reporting tool based on databases could probably do the j…

May 30

Christophe VG replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion 'Call for action: set UML free!'

Hello Vlad, you raise a couple of interesting points there. Allow me to put them a bit in context with regard to the webUML initiative and its current goals. Currently the webUML initiative tries to raise awareness and allow people to start discus…

January 18

Geert Bellekens replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion 'Call for action: set UML free!'

You are right, thanks I'll get right on it. Geert

January 16

Jorge Ubeda replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion 'Call for action: set UML free!'

Hi Geert the site does not work (as for Firefox, Chrome, and IE8). Nothing for sign, at least...

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December 2, 2009

Geert Bellekens replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

Vlad, I agree with you completely, the information about an element should be as close to this element as possible. The problem is that the output (e.g. the model) is not sufficient for the different target audiences and the different uses. Sometim…

December 1, 2009

Geert Bellekens replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

I see where you are going. My goal is indeed to have one repository of information and being able to extract the different formats for documentation I need. So I know what I want, but now I need to know how. Sure, I can create the metamodel, and wr…

December 1, 2009

Lothar Behrens replied to Geert Bellekens's discussion '(Modelling) Method documentation tool'

Interesting question. I thought about similar issues of documenting my application in general. I am currently using Doxygen for the API and Open Office for the GUI application and how to use it in general. In my view an ideal solution would be an…

December 1, 2009

Geert Bellekens replied to Jorge Ubeda's discussion 'UML and productivity'

I too have my doubts about this study. - They claim that the system under development is non-trivial. I'm sorry, but a system containing 6 packages and 50 classes does not qualify for me as "non-trivial". Just as a comparison, the UML model at my c…

November 28, 2009

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