What are the components of exff?
• The major components of an exff environment, not all of which are available yet, are: • UML modelling software; • EXPRESS modelling software; • a software engineering environment – typically either UML modelling tool plug-ins or a separate IDE that: • generates code in various programming languages; • generates database and data structure definitions; • generates APIs for GUI and data access development; • the exff infrastructure which ties the IDE, UML and EXPRESS tools together; and • exff-specific plug-ins supporting generation from UML and/or EXPRESS (e.g. ISO Part 21 support); • exff-specific tools, or links to existing tools, for schema/model documentation.