Re: Will UML helps to document Ada sources ?

["Yannick Duchêne Hibou57" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

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.

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).

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).

I'm falling back to StarUML (and leaving a note here for any one
interested). StartUML does not support Ada, but any way, UML is not a
compilable language (side note: there is an Executable UML somewhere
in the place), and there is no need for any language support to draw
shemas intended to document.

It can be found here : http://staruml.sourceforge.net/

StarUML can be extended with UML profiles (an extention mechanism
which is part of the UML standard), which should allow interested
parties to extend it to cleanly represent Ada architectures in UML.