Re: Ada and UML

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:20:41 +0200, nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> a écrit:
> Then the translation into code is just something mechanical.

I do not really believe in automatic source generation from UML, as there  
may be multiple possibilities. Or else, may be these systems use something  
to tell “for This, use That”. Just think that in Ada, you may have for  
example at least, where polymorphism is required, two ways to do (when  
feasible, sometime only one will applies) : static (via generics) and  
dynamic (via tagged or interface) polymorphism. How can a system know it  
should use this or that ? This requires a human analysis, to say “well,  
this can be statically known, so let's use static polymorphism” or else  
the opposite (just an example).

Your point makes me think about the so called “Executable UML”.  
Unfortunately, I do not know anything about it. I am just pretty sure this  
cannot be automated.

If you wan to tell more... just do :)

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