Author Topic: UML Repository (Read 7370 times)

jeshaw2 · « **on:** March 18, 2006, 09:20:36 am »

The UML 2.0 Superstructure and other texts I'm reading, refer to the UML 2 Repository Specification.

Where can I find this document?

thomaskilian · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2006, 01:28:33 pm »

Jim,
where do you find that pointer? I use SS Oct 8. 2004, Doc: ptc/04-10-02 (convenience document).

jeshaw2 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2006, 05:30:45 pm »

Open that document in Adobe Reader and do a PDF search on the term repository. I get 7 references to repository that way. It is also mentioned at the start of Appendix A.

Conrad Bock also speaks of a repository model in http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2003_07/column3.pdf page 7 of 11.

The model is also mentioned here: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConradBock

thomaskilian · « **Reply #3 on:** March 19, 2006, 10:02:54 am »

I guess this is just a synoym for the concrete UML based in a (EA

)-repository. Especially the sentence at the beginning of appendix A.

Paolo F Cantoni · « **Reply #4 on:** March 19, 2006, 02:10:03 pm »

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I guess this is just a synoym for the concrete UML based in a (EA )-repository. Especially the sentence at the beginning of appendix A.

Jim,

I agree with Thomas. I interpreted any such models as: "here's how it might look like in (some arbitrary) repository."

Paolo

jeshaw2 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 19, 2006, 03:03:32 pm »

RATZ!

Thought I was on to something. Those models are very helpful to me in gaining an understanding of UML.

Is such a specification available for the EA Repository?

thomaskilian · « **Reply #6 on:** March 20, 2006, 02:22:21 am »

Long time ago some guys were asking for that - but I really can't recall who it was and what the state is. Except that someone intended to work on it. I suspect there is a Rose model within OMG, but never have seen it outside. Guess why they don't publish it as XMI...

GTM · « **Reply #7 on:** March 20, 2006, 02:56:16 pm »

Hint: Metamill has direct .mdl import capabilities, and writes XMI.
I also was surprised that on one of my office PCs the .mdl file had an Icon, and a tool called MS Visual Modeler was assigned to it. I have no clue where I have this tool from ?
Anyway, it says its written by Rational for MS in 1998! It only supports Packages and Classes, but that might be sufficient in this case.

«Midnight» · « **Reply #8 on:** March 20, 2006, 03:21:28 pm »

As I recall it was a Visual Studio add-on (vs. add-in) that MS provided during the late '90s. It was available for a while as a download, but I cannot remember the restrictions - it might have been a beta, or a limited-feature version. It became something you could order for various versions of VS later.

I think it was replaced by the Visio version that now comes with the enterprise-level VS. This does not appear to be an evolution, but a different product.

I _do_ remember that it would read (and I think _only_ read) Rose files, and could create some limited models from them.

The product had some nice features, but various limitations led me to give up on it fairly quickly, and I never followed it after that, apart from verifying that the feature mix stayed below my minimum requirements.

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