Re: UML & Ada

["David Phillips" <dphillips@CohesionForce.com>]

Marin,

I believe you will find that Ada tasks can be modeled as Active Classes in
the current UML standard.  An Active Class is a class that has it's own
thread of control.  The notation on the diagram is augmented by making the
border around the class on the diagram bold.  All places where the class is
referenced will have the bold border to signify that the class is active.

Hope this helps,

David R. Phillips
Member Senior Technical Staff
CohesionForce, Inc.

"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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