Hi Dr. Turner, It's great to hear that the NCI is supporting the use of ArgoUML for caBIG now. When I was at the Google Summer of Code Mentor's Summit last summer I was asking some of the bioinformatics folks why open source UML modeling tools like ArgoUML aren't used, so it's cool to hear that this situation is changing.
As others have said, the current display for binary associations which are navigable in both directions is just a style choice which can be relatively easily made a preference setting. Unfortunately, the 0.26 release is in bug-fix only mode right now, so it won't make this release (unless someone lobbies for and is granted an exception). We're very open to supporting features which are requested by communities who are using ArgoUML as part of their tool chain such as AndroMDA, Plone, and caBIG. It's a great way to have a few focused features help a lot of users. It would be useful to get more visibility into your needs and the things which are in the pipeline. It appears that the ArgoUML work has been in planned for almost a year and if we'd known about the importance of this requirement even a couple of months ago, it would have made it into the release easily. Some of the features which are being included in 0.26 such as the enhanced profile support could definitely benefit the caBIG community, but they may also have an impact on the code generator which is consuming ArgoUML models, so it would be useful to establish lines of communication between the two projects. Tom On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Stuart Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing to inquire about ArgoUML's implementation or support for > bi-directional associations. > > This issue has come up in one or more projects we are mentoring development > (UML models) as part of the National Cancer Institutes' (National > Institute's of Health) Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG | > https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/) program. We also expect continued and perhaps > greater use of ArgoUML in future projects. > > caBIG now officially supports both ArgoUML and Sparx's Enterprise Architect > for development of all projects. We also have the requirement that the > directionality for each association be explicitly defined to be certain that > models accurately represent the intent of the model and that default > association cardinality and directionality is not accidentally included or > even implied (e.g. 0...1). > > Some of our project developers and mentors have found that Argo does or > cannot display bi-directional arrows. > > Sorry to post this if it has been brought up before. Has this issue been > raised, or has this been considered for development in future releases? This > feature alone would help catalyze greater adoption of ArgoUML by future > projects within our program. > > Thanks for all the great work > > ~ Stuart > > -- > Dr. Stuart Turner > Senior Health Informaticist > University of California, Davis > http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/informatics > > +1.916.596.0255 (primary) | +1.415.830.5844 > Skype: turner.stuart | Fax: +1.916.244.0339 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
