Re: Umbrello and XMI
Sebastian Stein <[email protected]>
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Anna Persson <[email protected]> [040409 22:38]: > I have some questions about Umbrello and XMI. If someone would give me > some answers or comments I would be REALLY grateful! I answer just one question, because I think it answers all questions ;-) > 6)My study has shown that exchange of XMI information between modelling > tools are really troublesome and I know that others have experienced the > same problems. Are these problems related to insufficiences in the XMI > standard or to insufficiences in the tools? Or both? The 1.X series of XMI is insufficience in the sense of sharing modell information between different tools. The problem is, that there is a standard how to exchange the modell information, but not how to exchange the diagram information. So every vendor invented some fancy stuff to save the diagram information as well in the XMI file. Such XMI files are not standard conform. That is why it fails. As we all know, this problem will be hopefully fixed with the upcoming UML/XMI 2.0 standard. Unfortunally this standard isn't out yet. I think the release was scheduled for one year ago. Nothing has happened for the public so far. So we have to wait. So the problem with xmi tool interchange might be fixed in some years (3 years maybe), if all major tools use the new standard without adding there own (proprietary) features. Well, to be honest, it would never happen. A tool maker is not interested that the user can easily switch to another tool. So there will be 2 or 3 major tools who rule the market. All other tools will add import filters to load projects of those tools, so that users can move. This has nothing to do with integration like you are looking for. Maybe an open source tool like Umbrello could be 100% standard conform. This could be a good marketing feature and help to attract users. Nevertheless, in 3 years I will blame on myself about this email, because I made statements about the future... :-) Sebastian -- ONE FAMILY! Leipzig 2012 - Olympic Summer Games http://www.leipzig2012.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click