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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:53:07 +0000
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

>>>>>> "Per" == Per Sandberg <per.sandberg@bredband.net> writes:
>
>     Per> Short notice
>     Per> Isn't that what MDA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture)
>     Per> is all about ??
>
> Don't know. As far as I can tell, the above seems to be more about
> models for communications (Corba, .NET, etc), where what I was talking
> about is for databases. I might be mistaken though.

All sorts of possibilities, in fact. It would be reasonably possible
to generate both a (probably unoptimised) database schema and
corresponding Ada interface code from a UML model (the model has to be
appropriate of course -- high-level aka vague models won't cut it).

http://www.kc.com/xuml.php
http://www.mentor.com/products/sm/uml_suite/index.cfm