In the AtlanMod group we have been recently working on a model-driven solution to improve tool interoperability, specially focusing on the challenging problem of interoperability between tools with variable metamodels (i.e. tools that are able to manipulate data conforming to different metadata specifications; in this situation, data interoperability needs to interchange not only the data but also the metadata between the tools so that the target tool can correctly interpret the imported information).

Today, Charanjit Singh writes a guest post to present Creately , an online diagramming tool that's build for collaboration. Enjoy the post!:

For the lazy (or busy) ones, some highlights of the interview:

• With Novulo, application modeling finally reaches the business domain.
• We want to deliver software that supports the business and not software that is a headache for the business.
• Modeling starts from the user perspective. First thing we do is to model the user interface
• We are eager to integrate and combine domain specific knowledge in submodels that then can be reused in other projects for the same domain
  

Some time ago we talked about a competition to find the Best Modeling Notation for Requirements Engineering held as part of the RE'09 Conference. As you all know, there is a huge number of different notations/approaches for modeling stakeholders' requirements such as: plain text specifications, structured text templates, goal-oriented requirement approaches (e.g.

Dzone is quite popular among the developer community (the RSS feed for the popular links category has around 25000 subscribers) so you may wonder how big is the effect of having a link to your site appearing there.

According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in February 2010 are (in this order):

• Sample UML interview questions (what NOT to ask IMHO)
• Unbelivable software modeling patents
• Highlights from Sridhar Iyengar´s talk (MOF, XMI,...)
  

We have blogged before ( here and here ) about UML tools for the iPhone but those two tools were NOT modeling tools but a reference guide for the UML you could consult when drawing UML diagrams.