*shrug* I suppose there is somewhat of a duplication. Im not sure of the
license of argo. My project will be released with full open source.
Personalyl, knowing universities, I dont trust them to come out with
comething completely open. It could turn out that the project is largely for
my own good. It is somewhat deflating to find that there is already another
project out there doing what Im working on but competition is supposed to be
a good thing. I can tell you already that my project has a very different
focus. It is NOT a glorified drawing program. As a matter of fact, other
then the placement of objects, I am not planniong on implementing drawing
features at all. I have always believed that modeling tools were to heavy on
drawing and not heavy enought on UML modelling, which is largely concerned
with classifiers and their relationships to each other. I have never
believed that a UML tool should have a focus on art. In fact many tools,
Visio, Rational Rose, have so much emphaisis on drawing that the features of
UML are BARELY enabled within them. Other tools are highly language
specific, with many generic features of UML Missing. I am a senior software
engineer professionally. I have found that most university based people have
limited real life knowledge of professional software engineering. My tool
will be disigned with the professional.
I have glanced at the argo web page. First thing that occurs to me. THe
documentation is barely there! No javadoc comments, just a laundry list of
mehtods. No model to the program. You would think the software would have a
model of at least itself. I know Jump will when released. Not very conducive
to contribution. It looks very java centric, not general. It also looks more
graphical then modelling.
--rob
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 1:22 PM
Subject: Jump and ArgoUML
> Hi Robert,
>
> Was just made aware of your project from the java-linux list.
>
> Are you familiar with ArgoUML http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/arch/uml/
> at all? Would it be possible to integrate your work within it somehow?
>
> I just hate to see duplication of effort =)
>
> By the way, your makefile has a bug: if Jump.jar doesn't exist then jar
> -umf will fail of course.
>
> . . . Sean.
>
>
>
>
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