Part 25 EXPRESS/UML/XMI Update

[Bernd G. Wenzel]

Folks,

let me just add one additional piece of information to Dave's
message below.

At the OMG meeting in Paris roughly 2 weeks ago I've learnt, that
OMG, JTC1 and the ISO Central Secretariat have agreed to publish
UML 1.4 as ISO standard although the balloted document was UML
1.3. In other words, what Dave is doing is even consistent with
ISO/OMG politics.

:-) Bernd

----- Original Message -----
From: David Price <david.price at eurostep.com>
To: <xmlsc4 at nist.gov>
Cc: <wg10 at steptools.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: Part 25 EXPRESS/UML/XMI Update


>
> Folks,
> Thought I should send an update on what's going on with Part
25.
>
> Based on the decisions made in October (yes October!) and
conflicts between
> EXPRESS and UML that are fixed in UML 1.4 we need to publish
Part 25 based
> on the not-yet-standardized UML 1.4.  All the previous document
referenced
> UML 1.3. I've been working through all the changes that are
required and
> expect to have a completed document ready before San Francisco
assuming I
> can get some example UML diagrams generated. This does not
result in that
> many technical changes to the mapping except in the area of
ordered
> aggregations and one change in the metamodel of UML eliminating
the
> ElementOwnership class. One nice thing is that the idea of a
UML Interchange
> Metamodel is introduced in UML 1.4 for both XMI and IDL use. It
also means
> XMI 1.1 can be used where the XML element names use Namespaces
making the
> file much more readable.
>
> Cheers,
> David
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