RE: UMLish modellers?
RE: UMLish modellers?
- Subject: RE: UMLish modellers?
- From: "Smith, Bradley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:43:52 +0100
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From: Prem Chopra [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: 10 September 2001 17:29
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bad tool. How about tools that do Round Trip Engineering( eg.
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Together/J).
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I haven't had extensive experience with these tools, but the
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change in code
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is reflected in the UML model. If you add a method in the
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code, the UML
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diagram is updated with that method. What are your thoughts
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on such tools ?
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The problem with this approach is that it works both ways i.e. a change to
your model makes your code change. This sounds desirable at first but if you
imagine a complete rediesign of your system then all the time you're making
your model changes your code no longer builds.
Brad