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AlphaSimple now in public beta

Submitted by jordi on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 14:50

Rafael Chaves who we already met in this interview about his TextUML textual UML modeling tool has just released AlphaSimple

Complaint about my code-generation strategy to implement many-to-many associations in relational databases

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 16:10
I got a complaint about the translation of many-to-many UML associations to SQL tables in my UMLtoSQL online service .

More specifically, the complaint was that in the translation of this UML class diagram:

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MoDisco featured at InfoQ

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 15:26

Check this entry about MoDisco at the well-knwon InfoQ online community.

Agile teams are more likely to model than traditional teams

Submitted by jordi on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 17:45
Against the common perception of many people, it seems that Agile teams are more likely to model than traditional teams, according to this survey by Scott Ambler .

Modeling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications

Submitted by jordi on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 16:31
My colleague Marco Brambilla has just presented our tool demo (Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot, and Michael Grossniklaus.

UML class diagrams easier to understand than ER diagrams

Submitted by jordi on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 07:11
Greg Wilson pointed me to the paper A. De Lucia, C. Gravino, R. Oliveto, G. Tortora, An Experimental Comparison of ER and UML Class Diagrams for Data Modelling, Empirical Software Engineering (2010) 15:455–492 (if you cannot access the paper, you may try directly contacting the authors).

The paper presents the results of three sets of controlled experiments aimed at analyzing whether UML class diagrams are more comprehensible than ER diagrams during data models maintenance.

Rule Interchange Format is now a W3C Standard

Submitted by jordi on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 16:04

W3C announces the publication of a new standard for building rule systems on the Web: Rule Interchange Format (RIF).

The goal of RIF is to facilitate the interoperation and interchange between various rule languages and rule engines. RIF defines a common XML serialization language for several declarative rule languages (like OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, SWRL, a subfamily of RuleML, etc)

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