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Subject: Re: Will UML helps to document Ada sources ?
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On Jul 27, 10:45 am, Yannick Duch=EAne Hibou57
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> I'm not really versed in UML, so I may be wrong, but it seems there
> are some suspected troubles with the conformity of Umbrello against
> UML.
>
> In a previous post, I've talked about the containment association. It
> seems that while this term appears in the UML specification, the
> symbol used by Umbrello for this association, does not exist in the
> UML Superstructure reference document.

That may be so but e.g. the UML Profile for CORBA does use the
"+"-inside-circle symbol for containmeint association.
That's where we got the idea from.

> Then, Umbrello does not allow to create a composition link between two
> Ada packages. I suspect it to be errorneous, as UML seems to allow it
> (the containment relation, seems to be indeed, a composition
> relation).

You are using a relatively version (1.3.2) and this has been fixed.
I recommend using 1.5.8 or newer.

> XMI file produced by Umbrello seems to be known to be none-conforming
> to wellformed XMI files (well... in the mean-time, XMI is not well
> suited to exchange UML diagrams).

This is a further area where improvements were made since 1.3.2.

> I'm falling back to StarUML (and leaving a note here for any one
> interested).

Yes, StarUML is great.
Too bad it is not being maintained or further developed.

Oliver