Re: Ada95 and UML

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9b1q2v$s6j4@cui1.lmms.lmco.com>, Joe Simon says...
>I am attempting to acertain what the implications are in using UML with
>Ada95 (The UML development tool we are using as of now is Telelogic Tau, it
>generates each object as a separate package with only one type, making it
>difficult to use Ada the way we are used to).

If you think that's fun, try the reverse-engineering. It likes to make a single
class out of each enumeration value. :-) 

Actually though, "1 class = (1 tagged type and 1 package)" is pretty much the
model for Ada. You can combine multiple tagged types in a single package, but
they should be *very* closely related if you do this (as their implementations
can break each other's encapsulation).

We used that tool about 3 product name changes and 2 owners ago. I hope you have
better luck with it than we did. Perhaps its much improved by now. I wouldn't
know. We couldn't get the previous version to install (even with our best
engineers talking to their tech support).

My suggestion would be to not bother with its code generation; just use it as a
drafting tool.

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