I'm not a zealot of UML and I'm not using it for the moment. But I think it's a good way to ease understanding between people, even not techies.
In fact, Neogia http://www.nereide.biz/ is build this way partially. They write UML graphs with Poseidon http://gentleware.com/index.php and they use a technology that they created with Code Lutin http://www.codelutin.com/ to generate files (every types ASA there is generator to do it). They wrote enough generators to ease 70% of the work on Neogia side (Neogia is using OFBiz) they claim. Jacques > Parkinson's law, though is about work expanding to meet the resources. > a lesser known one is the way to win an argument is to speak in an area > that the others can not comprehend so they will not show their ignorance > by speaking against it. > > Most of these modeling proposition, are the same, unless you are a > zealot about it. > > which boils down to good luck. > LOL. > > David Welton sent the following on 6/29/2006 4:18 AM: > >> I believe that was the Idea behind UML (unified Modeling Language) > >> http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/uml.htm > >> It really never got accepted. . > > > > I think this aims to be much more specific than UML, which is used for > > all kinds of things. It describes services, and how they interact, > > rather than database tables or objects, or other low level things of > > that nature. Perhaps it has a shot at working if it doesn't try to be > > everything to everyone. > > > > Some healthy skepticism is in order, but the idea is interesting. I > > would love to offload the design of these processes to my boss, and > > let a computer worry about translating them into something runnable > > (rather than sitting down and doing it myself:-). But perhaps that's > > just a dream, and in reality the system doesn't work out that well, or > > requires an army of people to implement. > > > > Anyway, just sort of curious what others thought. > >
