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I envy the strong industrial involvement in the web research community
According to a tweet by Matthias Heinrich , the WWW’2012 conference (in short, the most important research conference on web topics) had a very strong presence of industrial players: “Out of 108 papers, Yahoo contributed to 22 and MS to 13 papers.” and more than 40 people from Google attended . Compared to these numbers,
X3D-UML – Implementation of UML 3D with X3D
As a curiosity, I’m blogging today about X3D-UML, a thesis X3D-UML: User-Centred Design, Implementation and Evaluation of 3D UML Using X3D undertaken by Paul McIntosh involving the measurement of benefit in extending the Unified Modeling Language (UML) using the eXtensible 3D specification (X3D, the successor to VRML) to create 3D UML diagrams. The idea was
A coffee with Juan Carlos Molina – Integranova
Juan Carlos Molina leads the research and development activities at Modeling will be commonplace in three years time (with the caveat that, as he said, he has been giving the same answer since 1985!). I’m optimistic because I see that there’s now a little bit less of skepticism when we present our approach to companies
New open source UML editor by Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics (the company behind the BridgePoint™ xtUML UML Executable environment ) has recently announced its intentions to release as open source the UML Editor included in BridgePoint. Having more open source UML editors is always a positive step though you should not get too excited about this. Only the front-end editor is released, the
EMF Facet vs EMF Profiles – Two ways of extending your EMF models
EMF Facet and EMF Profiles are two lightweight extension mechanisms for EMF models. With both tools you are able to extend or annotate your existing models with additional information without having to modify the metamodel they conform to (which as we all know would be a real pain in the ass! and could force you
Matrix – A New Abstract Modeling Language
Today, Mike Finn presents a new abstract modeling language called Matrix based on the Shlaer-Mellor Method. Matrix is a textual modeling language that’s designed to be translated to many existing programming languages such as C, C++, Java and Ada. The Matrix language provides an extremely high level of abstraction compared to currently available executable modeling
Grapholite – a web-based UML drawing tool
Grapholite is a flow charting tool with support for all major UML diagrams (and also BPMN). The tool has a demo mode you can use to try it for free (btw, if anybody knows why they think that this picture of a young and half-naked woman, see the end of this page, would help them
seqdiag – simple sequence-diagram image generator
The latest addition to our list of textual UML tools (in a broad sense) is seqdiag a simple sequence-diagram image generator The input text follows a syntax similar to that of .dot files used by graphviz but you can also try the online demo they provide. Enjoy! If you enjoyed this post you can subscribe
Displaying UML class diagrams in ASCII
One of the UML tools for python includes the option of displaying the generated UML class diagrams (obtained by doing reverse engineering from the python code) in ASCII so that they can be easily integrated in the code itself as documentation. The Java Ascii Versatile Editor can be used to “beautify” the created UML ascii
BPMN Composer tool
Today we have a guest post by Yves Yang introducing his tool BPMN Composer (“The Modeler that is 100% BPMN 2.0″). Enter Yves: BPMN is a standard initiated in the early 2000s by a group called Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), which has now merged into the OMG. The initial objective was to deal with
