From: Hart, Lewis (lhart@grci.com)
Date: 02/05/01
There will be a DAML and UML Birds-of-a-Feather session at the up coming
DAML PI meeting, facilitated by Paul Kogut and myself. A proposed list of
discussion topics is included below. Please feel free to comment on or add
to the list. Also, current information on UML-DAML mapping can be found at
references [1] and [2] below.
See you in Arlington. - Lewis
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Lewis L Hart
GRC International lhart@grci.com
1900 Gallows Rd. Voice (703)506-5938
Vienna, Va 22182 Fax (703)556-4261
[1] http://ubot.lockheedmartin.com/ubot/details/uml_to_daml.html
[2] http://grcinet.grci.com/maria/www/codipsite/UML/UML_Properties.htm
Proposed DAML-UML BOF Session Topics
What's wrong, what's right, what's missing?
- Comments on and discussion of the current UML to DAML mapping.
- Using legacy UML to generate DAML
- Using UML specifically authored to generate DAML
- Identify issues and a process to resolve them.
- Optional mappings and equivalent alternatives.
- Restrictions on UML usage to allow DAML generation
- Mapping of currently omitted UML/DAML Elements
- constraints - use OCL or DAML restrictions or ?
- UML qualifications
- UML visibility (public, protected, private)
- UML scope (instance, class, package)
- RDF/DAML Containers - Sequence, List, Collection
- Reification
- Impact of Specific UML Implementations vs. UML V1.3 standard.
- Significant differences between UML tool implementations
- Avoiding implementation "enhancements" that are not in UML V1.3
- Avoiding UML V1.3 features that are not generally implemented
(e.g. generalization of associations)
- Look at specifics of the three UML tools in use for DAML
- Defining a standard interface.
- DAML API
- UML API (NovoSoft?)
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