by Jordi Cabot | Feb 4, 2014 | reverse engineering, UML and OCL
Very interesting initiative from Modelio : a new website, http://opensource-uml.org/, showcasing UML models derived from popular Java libraries and projects. So far they have the models for Ant, Jenkins, Junit and SWT but the list should be extended in the near...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 21, 2014 | article, UML and OCL
OCL (Object Constraint Language) is used everywhere: to define well-formedness rules, query expressions, model transformations,… but (as happens with most languages) a precise definition of the OCL semantics was lacking. Indeed, the OCL standard document from...
by Jordi Cabot | Oct 10, 2013 | databases, reverse engineering, UML and OCL
Valerio Cosentino and Salvador Martinez presented in the International Workshop on OCL, Model Constraint and Query Languages (OCL 2013) co-located with MODELS 2013 their work on the extraction of OCL integrity constraints and derived types from relational databases....
by Jordi Cabot | Oct 2, 2013 | talk, tools, UML and OCL
Yesterday in the OCL Workshop I saw the presentation of the paper: Tool-Supported Step-By-Step Debugging for the Object Constraint Language, the first debugger (AFAIK) available for the OCL language. I really liked what I saw so I asked Birgit Demuth to share with all...
by Jordi Cabot | Sep 13, 2013 | standard, UML and OCL
A few days ago Jonas Elfström tweeted the page count of several language specifications (based on a quick check of the specification documents, so we could probably argue about what he is exactly counting but let’s assume these numbers are more or less correct):...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 21, 2013 | empirical studies, opinion, UML and OCL
Some weeks ago we echoed a study (based on 50 interviews to software professionals) that showed UML adoption had not really taken off. Today, we mention a post by Richard Soley (yes, the CEO of the OMG, the organization behind UML) that claims exactly the opposite and...
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