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Nine Suggestions for Improving UML Extensibility

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«UML»’99 — The Unified Modeling Language (UML 1999)

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In this paper we suggest nine improvements that address issues in UML extensibility and UML based tools. These improvements were suggested by work on SAGE, an extension to Rational Rose that automates the component generation process in a large scale CORBA financial enterprise framework called Sea-Bank. SAGE makes extensive use of UML extensibility features and it was noted that these features were under-specified in the UML standard and undersupported in current CASE tools. This paper proposes some ideas that would greatly improve UML extensibility, which we believe is critical for wider adoption of UML and for next generation domain-specific and UML-based component development and tools

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  1. University of Utah, USA

    Nathan Dykman & Robert Kessler

  2. HP Laboratories, USA

    Martin Griss

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1873, USA

    Robert France

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Bernhard Rumpe

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Dykman, N., Griss, M., Kessler, R. (1999). Nine Suggestions for Improving UML Extensibility. In: France, R., Rumpe, B. (eds) «UML»’99 — The Unified Modeling Language. UML 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1723. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46852-8_17

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