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General Board / Re: Can Zicom Mentor keep pace with EA

« on: March 16, 2004, 11:26:19 pm »

Answer to your Question: Glad to here you are getting benefit from Mentor. Our current plan is to present the UML 1.5 and UML 2.0 in two separate books.  So you can flick between them and see some of the differences. We are also going to make some annotations to the new and changed UML elements to indicate how they relate to the UML 1.5 specification i.e. if they are New/Revised/Augmented etc. Of course there will be many more interactive examples to demonstrate aspects of their usage. The interactive diagrams will now include the new diagram types: including Sequence Diagram which were missed in Version 2.1. Once again any suggestions would be warmly welcomed.

Stephen

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General Board / Re: Can Zicom Mentor keep pace with EA

« on: March 16, 2004, 11:34:59 am »

Yes!! Zicom Mentor for UML 2.0 and EA 4.0 will be released shortly. We have been working on UML 2.00 for some time and have added some 60 new elements - explaining how to use the new UML 2.00 syntax. We have added interactive diagram support in the current version (2.1) and this will be used to demonstrate how to use UML 2.0 with more than 100 new examples planned. We are also working on a number of new features that will make UML modeling much more intuitive. Any suggestions of how the product can be improved to help you with UML modeling are always welcomed.  

Stephen - Author of Mentor  

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General Board / Re: Zicom Mentor - Anybody buy it?

« on: March 06, 2003, 01:19:03 pm »

About Examples[/b].
There are currently many examples in the Mentor and each element is given a pictorial context, which gives an indication of its usage. Every new version of Zicom Mentor will have more and more examples. The order for inclusion is based on the author's 6 years experience teaching and implementing with UML in real projects and knowledge of the traps that people can fall into when starting to use the UML.

The examples are not going to be added as a single group but will be included with every new version (every month or so) so if you would like to suggest areas which you, or your team, or your organisation would like examples for - please just email the Mentor at [email protected] and I will ensure they are pushed up the order of precedence for you.


Stephen Maguire (Mentor Author)