Re: UML & Ada

["Mark Fisher" <MAFisher@ukgateway.net>]

In sequence diagrams messages are shown as synchronous/asynchronous
using a half-stick arrowhead, which can be supplemented with extensions such
as balking, time-out, guarded etc.

The focus of control is also present to indicate the active nature of the
object(s)
so it is quite simple to represent tasks/concurrency.

Mark


"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in
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> The last time I went informally cruising through anything to do with the
> UML, I seem to recall that it lacked any means of representing Ada tasks.
> Through interaction diagrams, you kind of had a way of saying how one
thread
> of control would interact with another, but when it came to representing
> something that should be translated to a task, complete with rendesvous,
> etc, there didn't seem to be any way of expressing this.
>
> I hear rumors from Dr. Dobbs that there is some sort of revision going on
to
> come up with a v2.0 of UML. Has anybody heard if there is any intention to
> support tasks with some kind of diagram symbol? UML seems to be bent on
the
> assumption that all software will be built via OOD & I've had a hard time
> ibn the past trying to make it fit something that was not OOD, so I'm
> wondering if they are at all considering making it more general - or at
> least making it possible to describe Ada programs more thoroughly.
>
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