Re: Multi Valued Interface Models?

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:43f0949e$0$11075$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> > http://microgold.com/Stage/UML_FAQ.html say it is an object oriented
> > modeling method.

> Which is a common misconception due to sloppy wording.

Then why there are class diagrams in it ?

> > 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.

> You can think of a model, and describe it using expressions
> from your modelling language. It's hard to communicate about
> models when everybody uses different languages to express
> similar things. Booch, Rumbaugh and Jacobson did a very
> good thing to come up with a language acceptable to
> many different schools.

It is a language or several ones from which you can pick ? Are you required to build all the diagrams or just the ones you want ?

> 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?

Thank you for the explanation. Received on Mon Feb 13 2006 - 16:05:01 CET