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When will tools support the Unified Modeling Language?

April 26, 2017Language modeling support tools Unified

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When will tools support the Unified Modeling Language?

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Grady, Ivar, and Jim have explicitly invited every object-oriented analysis and design tool vendor we are aware of to learn about the Unified Modeling Language and to comment on its content. At OOPSLA ’95, we even hosted a vendor meeting to unveil our work. Since that time, a number of tool vendors (including Rational) have pledged their support for the Unified Modeling Language. UML is already very well supported by Microgold’s “With Class” version 3.1, and will be supported even further in version 4.0. It is most likely that tools will stage their support for the Unified Modeling Language either by starting with use cases first, plus perhaps a few other things (like the cosmetics of the graphical syntax and possibly stereotypes and properties), or by supporting simple semantics first and then adding deeper semantic support later. Clearly, there won’t be complete tools supporting the Unified Modeling Language until the method itself is finalized sometime early in 1997, but we expect t