What exactly is: Executable UML

[BlueProdigy]

The Business and Software Engineering Edition details state:

Executable UML models, BPEL and more
By combining powerful new features like executable code generation from UML models, BPEL, advanced scripting and a multi-purpose Rules Composer targeting executable code from fact models, Sparx Systems has put advanced model driven construction tools within the reach of all team members.

Can someone elaborate?

[sargasso]

At the risk of getting excommunicated,
"any model that justifies the modeller being taken out and shot".

Sorry, its Friday here on Venus.
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p.s. on re-reading the definition you quoted, it appears that there is also "executable code", which can only mean shooting the coder, a laudable goal I have held personally for some years.  Now if we could only get "executable marketting" and "executable project management" somehow included ... ... ...

[beginner]

Execution:
2 the carrying out of a sentence of death on a condemned person : the place of execution | executions of convicted murderers.
• the killing of someone as a political act.

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[sargasso]

hmm,

"condemned person" :: set_of (marketers, coders, project managers)
"political act" :: an act granting benefit or mercy to the general common wealth (aka rest of the population)

looks good to me!  (Probably have to get Paolo to comment on the meryno... whatever)

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[BlueProdigy]

Yeah.  thanks.  Our company is actually making an estimation on what version to get and I'm on a time limit.

Maybe someone from Sparx?  Hello?  

[sargasso]

BlueProdigy,
Refer PM, as in just above the light blue "News" banner.
cheers
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[BlueProdigy]

i guess they don't troll their own boards?  Herm.  

[beginner]

...(Probably have to get Paolo to comment on the meryno... whatever)

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Never noticed that relation to polish sheep. Reverse notation?

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[KP]

i guess they don't troll their own boards?  Herm.  

This is a user forum. For direct contact with Sparx, please send in a support request (you can use the bug report form - link at bottom of page - even if it isn't a bug)

[RoyC]

i guess they don't troll their own boards?  Herm.  

Well, yes we do, every day, but only as interested bystanders. This is a USER forum and, as we state in each category heading, if you want direct communication with Sparx Systems you should contact us through the various email addresses or other mechanisms as identified in those category headings or elsewhere on the website.

You would probably benefit from contacting Sparx Marketing (via [email protected] or, if you want to talk prices too,   [email protected]).

EDIT: Ayah! KP got there first!

[BlueProdigy]

I understand what you're saying.  It was the lackluster responses and all the irrelavant banter that got irritating pretty quick.

I've just never heard of Executable UML and SURELY someone has used it/heard of it without me having to contact EA directly.

Seriously?

[DanG83616]

I don't mean to be glib but if you use google you'll get plenty of hits. It is the latest trade name for the Shlaer-Mellor approach to software development.

I think the lack of serious response from this forum is because EA can be used to create models that could be compiled by a Executable UML model compiler but EA doesn't include such a compiler.

IMAO, if you don't know what it is then you are years and many $$ away from making effective use of it. This is no judgement on you but a reflection of my own experience. YMMV.

HTH,
Dan

[BlueProdigy]

well after reading up on it, it wouldn't fit into our environement anyway.  I mean it probably would, but we're not a software development organization (as in executable software), we focus specifically on web dev.  I'm not sayin xUML wouldn't be used, it is beyond the focus of this shop.

thanks.

I didn't google in the beginning because I thought it was EA specific...one-track mind inundated with TMI.  KWIM?

[beginner]

Not all posts get hijacked. Some guys here have a special humor. Sometimes they're taken up and away...

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