Re: Multi Valued Interface Models?
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:17:55 +0100
Message-ID: <43f0949e$0$11075$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
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> You have not given the specifications for the interface in a way that not
> assume a particular solution.
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> I don't know UML but I was exposed to some OMT after I've learned about
> formal languages, automata theory and RM. For this reason it was easy to
> grasp.
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> http://microgold.com/Stage/UML_FAQ.html say it is an object oriented
> modeling method.
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:17:55 +0100
Message-ID: <43f0949e$0$11075$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
x wrote:
> dawn wrote:
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>>>You have not shown a complete model of the interface.
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>>A complete model? Maybe we need to look at what a model is. A model >>is a metaphor or a, well, model of the real thing. It is not the real >>thing. A model car doesn't usually have a working engine. It might >>not have working brakes or even any brakes.
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> You have not given the specifications for the interface in a way that not
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>>>HTML and XML are not UML. >>>I don't think UML is generally acceptable. >> >>Nothing is completely acceptable everywhere. Prototypes might come as >>close as possible to be generally acceptable, but you always get >>comments about how it is not a "complete prototype" which I gather >>would be, well, the final product. What diagramming specification is >>more commonly accepted than UML? That is not a rhetorical question. >>I'd be happy to use something else for showing a diagram of a logical >>model of data.
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> I don't know UML but I was exposed to some OMT after I've learned about
> formal languages, automata theory and RM. For this reason it was easy to
> grasp.
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> http://microgold.com/Stage/UML_FAQ.html say it is an object oriented
> modeling method.
Which is a common misconception due to sloppy wording.
> And you have not given :
> -Use-case diagrams
> - Class diagrams
> - State-machine diagrams
> - Message-trace diagrams
> - Object-message diagrams
> - Process diagrams
> - Module diagrams
> -Platform diagrams
> so I don't know if you have given an UML model after all.
Strictly, there is no such thing as a UML model.
Now think of a model, use the UML to express aspects of it. If somebody would say "where is the UML model?" - you still would understand, no? Received on Mon Feb 13 2006 - 15:17:55 CET