Re: Users of the BON notation among Ada users ?

[Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

On Jan 12, 6:25 pm, Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think UML has some good features, and is useful to support the
> design of an integrated system, including hardware and ASIC aspects.
> To better support Ada software, UML needs a *standard* Ada specific
> "profile" to customise the terminology and extend the semantics (i.e.
> an "AdaML" variant of UML along the lines of the "SysML" variant that
> was developed to support whole system design).

Back 2000-2002 I kept badgering the UML guys at Artisan and iLogix to
try and create such a profile and I did get the impression the OMG
were working on such a thing. But without being a paid-up member of
the OMG, you can't get access to such draft or working groups.

Artisan (Francis Thom - who's now no longer with them) published such
a profile (still available for $25) but without there being an OMG
stamp on the front only Artisan tools are likely to support it.

I aware of other companies that have developed their own profiles to
support both Ada95 and SPARK95 but I believe there are IP issues
within these companies which prevent them from entering the public
domain.

Shame.

Cheers
-- Martin