RE: UMLish modellers?
RE: UMLish modellers?
- Subject: RE: UMLish modellers?
- From: "Smith, Bradley" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:49:03 +0100
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From: John C. Daub [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: 10 September 2001 19:00
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As I've been reading this "UMLish modellers" thread, it's
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sounding like the
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problem isn't so much with the Unified Modeling *Language* as
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it is with the
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available UML tools out there.
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Is this a reasonable conclusion to draw (at least based upon
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what's been
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posted on this thread so far)?
I'd say so.
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I've been working with UML for under a year (i.e. fiddling,
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experimenting,
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and reading books on it) and I think it's a good tool to
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use... it can help
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one visualize and I've found it easier *for me* to perhaps
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brainstorm out
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the rough sketch for my app's data model or the event
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sequence in a threaded
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app when I've got a lot of things going on and need to keep
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things in some
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degree of sync. The trouble for me is finding a good UML tool that's
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somewhat affordable... oh, and runs on a Mac. :-) Doesn't
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seem to be much
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out there.
There is a (free) version of Together that runs under classic MacOS and
apparently they are going to support MacOS X (but don't currently).
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So... to sorta bring this back to a Cocoa-dev thread, maybe that's the
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opportunity available here: for someone to make a UML tool
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that actually
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fits real-world needs and situations where UML would be
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helpful/applicable
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in the development cycle. And the more it can integrate into a Mac
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development paradigm (be that Cocoa or Carbon, Objective C or
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C++, Project
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Builder or CodeWarrior) and mentality. That it can change management
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facilities (e.g. revision control), that there's some degree
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of sync between
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diagrams and code so as code changes diagrams get updated too (maybe
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documentation as well... now THAT would be an IDE, wouldn't it?). :-)
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Sounds like a good idea. Let's do it!
Brad