Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny02.POSTED!6eb9bcf9!not-for-mail From: "H. S. Lahman" Reply-To: hsl@pathfindermda.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory,comp.object Subject: Re: How is Behavior Specified References: <_ZoJj.3574$at6.3220@trndny01> In-Reply-To: <_ZoJj.3574$at6.3220@trndny01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:04:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.174.78.24 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny02 1207314267 71.174.78.24 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:04:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:04:27 EDT Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.theory:171196 comp.object:265559 X-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:04:27 EST (text.usenetserver.com) Responding to Cressey... > How is behavior specified? > > In particular, is the specification expressed as declaratives or as > imperatives? The short answer is: anyway you want -- so long as the specification semantics are compliant with the UML execution meta model. -- There is nothing wrong with me that could not be cured by a capful of Drano. H. S. Lahman hsl@pathfindermda.com Pathfinder Solutions http://www.pathfindermda.com blog: http://pathfinderpeople.blogs.com/hslahman "Model-Based Translation: The Next Step in Agile Development". Email info@pathfindermda.com for your copy. Pathfinder is hiring: http://www.pathfindermda.com/about_us/careers_pos3.php. (888)OOA-PATH