Re: [w.formann@netsurf213.neuss.netsurf.de: Re: (FC-Devel) Is theproject still alive??? [EXPIRED TRIAL LICENCE]]

[chris.m.moore@gecm.com]

Wolfgang Formann wrote:
> Jacques Bergeron wrote:

> > OK so what I understand is that you want to concentrate on a central
> > repository. Excellent idea and a good complement to other projects which
> > will naturally concetrate on the UI (more visible)!
> > 
> > I took a look this morning at the UML user guide and reference manuals by
> > the 3 amigos (Booch, Jacobson and Rumbaugh) and what they seem to be getting
> > at is that the notion of package should be the base for storage, access and
> > configuration control:
> 
> Please! Ignore the Amigos! If you want to create an UML tool, then go to
> OMG
> and read their standard! There are too many differences between the
> books of
> those Amigos and the OMG definitions. Otherwise, if you want to write an
> Amigo-Tool, go on and continue :-(

I'm working solely from the OMG docs.  Unfortuneately the work so far has all be
beased on v1.1.  Upgrading to v1.3 is my short term goal.

> Sorry to say so, but UML is (part of) my job :-(

Glad to have you on the list.

> > "Packages are primarely intended as access and and configuration control
> > mechanism to permit developers, in large work groups, to organize large
> > models and evolve them without getting in each other's way".
> 
> Not the package itself is used to organize models, it is the package
> with
> the stereotype <<subsystem>>. Small difference in notation, big
> difference
> in usability!

Thanks for the tip.

As for my concept of the repository, I'm using CORBA, so that is Jacques thin
client scenario.  My envisaged XMI tools look like they could satisfy part of
the fat client scenario ie. the package server part.  Not sure about the version
control part though.

Chris Moore