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From: "Bill Watkins" <bill.watkins@noway.boeing.com>
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Here's the UML Revision Task Force link (the UML 2.0 link is also on this
page):

http://www.celigent.com/omg/umlrtf/

Readers may also want to look here for more info on approaches to modeling
tasks and threads with UML:

http://www.therationaledge.com/content/may_01/t_activity2_bl.html

--
Bill Watkins
Applications Architect
Information Systems
Boeing Houston Operations


"Mark Lundquist" <up.yerz@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> 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
>
>
>
>