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Top 5 posts in February 2010
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):
Unbelivable software modeling patents
Some time ago, Johan den Haan pointed out that "MDA had been patented" . Indeed, if you read the description of this patent, they use the notions of platform-independent and platform-specific "components" and the idea that platform-specific components could be generated from the platform-independent ones. Sounds familiar? (and, by the way, the patent is from 2009 much later than these concepts were included in the MDA OMG standard)
Top 5 posts in January 2010
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in January 2010 are (in this order):
- Interview with Rafael Chaves (TextUML Toolkit - creating models at the same speed you write code)
- Call for Action - Setting UML free
- Drawing UML Sequence Diagrams "napkin style"
Anybody remembers the UML Diagram Interchange format?
One of the reasons that have motivated the WebUML initiative (commented here ) is the problem of exchanging UML models among different modeling tools.
Top 5 posts in December 2009
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in December 2009 are :
- A coffee with Javier Muñoz about MOSkitt (Eclipse Modeling Platform)
- Summary of Ivar Jacobson's talk at École des Mines de Nantes on "What they don't teach you about software at school : Be smart"
SBVR and BMM metamodels added to the AtlanMod Zoo of metamodel samples
Guillaume Doux has added the SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules) and BMM (Business Motivation Model) metamodels to the AtlanMod Zoos of metamodels (a very short explanation of what this is here ).
OOModels - Another model repository
OOModels is an open library of object oriented modelling artefacts from the business and technical domain, offering open operational business knowledge. You can download, contribute, discuss and develop modelling artefacts, meet architects and software providers, convert formats, get started with your software solution, find software to operate your model, integrate with eclipse and learn about formats, concepts and technologies
Top 5 posts in November 2009
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries of November 2009 are (in this order):
- (provocative?) Grady Booch's comments on UML/MDA
- Pitfalls of informal modeling languages (cartoon)
UML samples out there?
We recently mentioned a free library of database model samples . However, it seems (given the poor response to this stack overflow question that it is impossible to find something similar for several kinds of UML models.
Free library of data/domain models
Looking for examples of data models? Needing inspiration to start a static model for your application domain?
Check this free library of more than 600 kick-start data models and you may get lucky and find what you need.
Models are mainly defined using the Entity-Relationship notation (first and preferred notation for database modelers) but if you know UML you shouldn't have many problems in understanding the ER notation.