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Why Unified Is not Universal

UML Shortcomings for Coping with Round-Trip Engineering

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«UML»’99 — The Unified Modeling Language (UML 1999)

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UML is currently embraced as “the” standard in object-oriented modeling languages, the recent work of OMG on the Meta Object Facility (MOF) being the most noteworthy example. We welcome these standardisation efforts, yet warn against the tendency to use UML as the panacea for all exchange standards. In particular, we argue that UML is not sufficient to serve as a tool-interoperability standard for integrating round-trip engineering tools, because one is forced to rely on UML’s built-in extension mechanisms to adequately model the reality in source-code. Consequently, we propose an alternative meta-model (named FAMIX), which serves as the tool interoperability standard within the FAMOOS project and which includes a number of constructive suggestions that we hope will influence future releases of the UML and MOF standards.

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  1. Software Composition Group, University of Berne, Neubrückstrasse 10, CH-3012, Berne

    Serge Demeyer, Stéphane Ducasse & Sander Tichelaar

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1873, USA

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  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, D-80290, München, Germany

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Demeyer, S., Ducasse, S., Tichelaar, S. (1999). Why Unified Is not Universal. In: France, R., Rumpe, B. (eds) «UML»’99 — The Unified Modeling Language. UML 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1723. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46852-8_44

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