Re: Will UML helps to document Ada sources ?

[Vadim Godunko <vgodunko@gmail.com>]

On Jul 31, 4:54 pm, Yannick Duchêne Hibou57 <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr>
wrote:
> On 31 juil, 14:38, Vadim Godunko <vgodu...@gmail.com> wrote:> I have old idea to develop general purpose, cross platform UML
> > modeller in Ada,
>
> what do you mean when you say “ general purpose ” ?
>
I mean suitable for any kinds of use, not only Ada target code. Today
(unfortunately for me) most UML modellers provides its one "view" on
UML and how it must be used (usually they are targeted to different
programming languages); but UML is not a concrete language, in
conjunction with MDA it can be used at any abstraction level, thus
each construction can be used to represent different things on
different abstraction level.

> But why exactly the choice of Qt above any others ?
>
There are two cross platform GUI toolkits for now: GtkAda and QtAda.
Among others nice things Qt includes "ready-to-use" and very powerful
graphics scene/graphics view framework, it allows to have more object-
oriented code when GtkAda allows and so on.

> > and providing GUI independent core libraries for UML model processing.
>
> You mean a GUI abstraction ?
> But why a GUI abstraction if there is the thought to specifically
> target the Qt GUI ?
>
I mean set of libraries for access and manipulation by UML models for
development of third-party tools, like model transformation tools or
code generation tools.

> Any business model in sight ?
>
No, it is just a hobby project based on my experience.