Dear all, most of you would be familiar with the online UML diagrams of the reference model - at http://www.openehr.org/svn/specification/TAGS/Release-1.0.1/publishing/architecture/computable/UML/uml_start_view.html
David Lloyd started building these some 2 years or more ago using the MagicDraw tool, which appeared to be one of the better tools on the market. The current version of the model is in MagicDraw 9.5 and can be found at http://www.openehr.org/svn/specification/TRUNK/architecture/computable/UML/MagicDraw/ David also had to (at my request) hack the publishing part of MagicDraw to make it publish the tabular form of classes in a vaguely sensible format - and these scripts will no longer work with later vresions of MagicDraw. This tool is also of course a paying tool. The MagicDraw tool has changed fairly radically in later versions and it would be quite some work to upgrade the current expression of the model to the latest version. Possibly we should consider other tools or approaches to having online UML. Personally I have found every UML tool I have tried lacking, and don't use them in any serious production sense - I believe they are mainly useful for generating diagrams for communication purposes like we do in openEHR rather than actually using them in software building - thus from my point of view, the main requirement here is an HTML tree that we can publish. We will need to be able to continue to update the UML HTML since modifications will be made to the reference model in coming releases. Are there suggestions on how to do this? Are there offers from someone in the community who could actually do it? - thomas beale
