Re: UML & Ada

["Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com>]

"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?
>

The real-time profile will be included in UML 2.0.  It comprises a tasking
model, timing, schedulability, quality of service, etc.

But I don't know enough about it to know how well it will map onto Ada's
tasking semantics.

-- mark
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