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: 2001-11-19 23:02:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "martin.m.dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9tc0qk$cee$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: UML & Ada X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:52:53 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.148.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1006239437 62.252.148.64 (Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:57:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:57:17 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16706 Date: 2001-11-20T06:52:53+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:9tc0qk$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? UML seems to be bent on the > assumption that all software will be built via OOD & I've had a hard time > ibn the past trying to make it fit something that was not OOD, so I'm > wondering if they are at all considering making it more general - or at > least making it possible to describe Ada programs more thoroughly. Artisan's Real-time Studio Pro certainly contain extensions to the UML which they have been working to include in the new standard. Pragsoft's UML Studio contains tasks as 'components'. I'm not sure either use the real-time models in their code generation though ('Big Up' to Pat Rogers for the UML=>Ada script in this tool! Just have to get a reverse engineering tool to go with it now :-)