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Object Constraint Language (OCL) v. 2.4 has now been released
Ed Willink , the driving force behind the standard AND implementation tasks for the OCL language has just announced the availability of OCL 2.4. According to Ed: The OCL 2.4 specification has now been formally adopted and is available from...
Has MDA been abandoned (by the OMG)?
(Note that I’m strictly referring to the MDA standard, not to model-driven engineering in general). In 2003, the OMG published the MDA guide v1.0.1 describing the MDA framework, an “… an approach to using models in software development. MDA provides...
UML specification length compared with other languages
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):...
Standardization of Data Interchange with MDE
Fabian Büttner talks about his work on “Model-driven Standardization of Public Authority Data Interchange” (to appear in the Science of Computer Programming journal, there is a (free) link to the full paper at the end). Enter Fabian. Standardization is...
User interface modeling with the new IFML standard
UML is good to model many things but clearly misses the point when it comes to design complex user interfaces and interactions. Attempts to use UML for this usually end up with complex profiles that are almost impossible to apply. Therefore, I was happy to see that...Modeling: all you need to know
