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Contact:
Nancy Lenehan
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org
UML 2.0 Standard Officially Adopted at OMG Technical Meeting in
Paris
Needham, MA, USA - June 12, 2003- At last week's Object Management
Group™ (OMG™) Technical meeting in Paris, France, the Analysis and
Design Task Force voted to recommend adoption of the Unified Modeling
Language™ (UML®) 2.0 Superstructure specification, completing the
definition of this major upgrade to the industry's main software modeling
notation. Complementary MetaObject Facility™ (MOF™) 2.0 specifications
for the MOF Core and XML Metadata Interchange® (XMI®) were also
recommended, updating the repository foundation upon which UML and Model
Driven Architecture® (MDA®) tools are built. Alignment of the UML 2.0
metamodel with the MOF metamodel will simplify model interchange via XMI,
and cross-tool interoperability.
"Based on our 5+ years of experience in using UML, we have learned
a great deal about unifying modeling languages. Using this knowledge, UML
2.0 literally represents the next evolutionary step in our ability to
express and communicate system specifications----one which provides a
sound basis for MDA," said Jim Odell, noted consultant and writer as
well as the co-chair of the Analysis and Design Task Force.
"With over 50 companies contributing their best technology and
best practices to this release, the OMG process once again proves itself,
turning out a major new standard that will have a resounding impact on the
future of software development," remarked Dr. Richard Soley, OMG
Chairman and CEO.
The upgraded UML standard now has the following features:
- A first-class extension mechanism allows modelers to add their own
metaclasses, making it easier to define new UML Profiles and to extend
modeling to new application areas.
- Built-in support for component-based development to ease
modeling of applications realized in Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA®
components or COM+.Support for run-time architectures allows modeling
of object and data flow among different parts of a system. Support for
executable models improved in general.
- More accurate and precise representation of relationships improves
modeling of inheritance, composition and aggregation, and state
machines.
- Better behavioral modeling improves support for encapsulation
and scalability, removes restrictions on mapping of activity graphs to
state machines, and improves Sequence diagram structure.
- Overall improvements to the language simplifies syntax and
semantics, and better organizes its overall structure.
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