Re: Free Ada UML tools Available /

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Frode Tenneboe <ft@alne.edh.ericsson.se> writes:

> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have a project (ColdFrame, http://www.pushface.org/coldframe/) which
> > generates Ada framework code as a backend for a UML tool.
> 
> > At the moment the only front-end supported is Rational Rose, which is
> > _not_ free of course.
> 
> I thought that Rational Rose already did that....generate Ada95 code
> that is?

Yes, but you have very little control over how it does it (in the
sense that the architect can't change overall policy) and far too much
control (in that there is a moby dialog box with more options than you
could shake a stick at, which the individual engineer can change on an
individual model element with possible global consequences and with
very little clue as to what these might be).

Also, if something's to be in the generated code it has to be in the
model, so you get all sorts of cruft in the model that detracts from
understanding (domain pollution, of the subject matter by the software
architecture).