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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no.spam.btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
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"Alvery Grazebrook" <alveryg@artisansw.com> wrote in message
> > Artisan has Ada support, and is fairly well-known to real-time
> > users. As far as I can tell, it's rather fixed in its views; if you
> > need lots more control over what gets generated, you'd probably be
> > better off using Aonix's ACD via Software through Pictures.
> >
> The Artisan tool, Real-time Studio has been evolving its Ada code
> support. The code-generator is template based, so you can customize it
> any way you like. It also includes reverse engineering and what we
> call "Synchronization". This is basically a differencing engine to
> compare the current state of the code with the current state of the
> model, combined with a resolution capability that will re-generate or
> reverse any parts that you select based on the differences.

But is reversing and synchronisation available once you customise
the templates?

This isn't just a question for Artisan but for all UML tools.