standard for business use case and business actor

[Ernani Medeiros]

Hi,

I´m looking for the specification which stands the standard for business use case and business actor element model - the notation. Can anyone help me?

I see these two symbols being used for many authors but where this came from? They don´t tell and the infrastructure and superstructure don´t mention that.

I´ve tried to Attach the “.jpg” with these two elements to avoid misunderstandings what I´m talking about, but I don´t know how to do this here. I hope someone can help me in it.

A Best Regards,
Ernani Medeiros

 

[Eve]

They don't come from UML.  I believe they come from Rational Unified Process.

[Ernani Medeiros]

Ok. I guess I knew it but, didn´t OMG aggregate it in UML Extensions in the past? I believe it is true, but where are these "UML Extensions" today? EA uses this notation also, so where it came from? What establish this?

A Best Regard,

Ernani Medeiros
 

[Dermot]

We do support inbuilt extension stereotypes that cover this   - see:
http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/uml_dictionary/business_interaction.html

[Ernani Medeiros]

Well, I did my research and here is the summary:

1 - The OMG´s documentation about the old UML Extensions is in: http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/97-08-07.pdf;

2 - The UML Extensions is not supported by the OMG anymore; instead they are promoting Business Process Definition MetaModel (BPDM). The last issue about it was in 97/08/07 and now it is deprecated;

3 - Anyway the modern UML tool, like EA, stands for the two standards of notation, let's see:

3.1 - For EA see: http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/uml_dictionary/business_interaction.html and  http://www.sparxsystems.com/uml_tool_guide/uml_dictionary/otherelements2.html.  , just like Dermot said.

4 - Basically, this is because many professionals, like me, still use the old fashioned UML Extensions, but still there are a few of them that uses BPDM; additionally, the modern tools ask for the compliance in which regard OMG standard.

Am I wright about? Any contribution?

I guess this close the ticket...