From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8fbb80525a3ce8ee X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-20 13:28:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttln1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9tc0qk$cee$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: UML & Ada X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:28:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.56.237 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttln1.wa.home.com 1006291681 24.248.56.237 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:28:01 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:28:01 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16755 Date: 2001-11-20T21:28:01+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9tc0qk$cee$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > 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 http://members.home.com/mlundquist2/consulting