UML

[ScherBi at BAM.com]

I use UML, via ObjectDomain (www.objectdomain.com).
I am involved in developing web based applications for our intranet.
I find it extremely useful for most anything larger than a quick hack.

Where I find it most useful:

 - Use Case diagrams are great for capturing requirments.
 - UML allows one to work on 'the big picture', without worrying much about
the details, then later you can work on individual details without worrying
about the big picture. In other words, create classes and class diagrams in
UML, design the class interfaces, and play around with the design at this
level.  When you think you have it right, generate the stub code and fill in
the methods.  You can fill in the methods without getting caught up in the
interface issues, which makes things much easier.

You can download a 30 day demo from objectdomain.  To help learn UML, I
recommend getting a python module (that has a class hierarchy in it, like
SocketServer.py) where you understand the hierarchy and the operations, then
reverse engineer it into objectdomain.  You can then automatically generate
a class diagram.  

And no, I don't work for ObjectDomain.  It's the only UML tool I know of the
generates and reverse engineers Python.  OD is written in Java.  I don't
like that feature of it much, but once I get over the problems inherint in
that, I think it's a fine tool.

It's rumored that third parties develop language modules for Rational Rose,
others may know more about this.


Bill Scherer

-----Original Message-----
From: robert_wilhelm_land [mailto:robert_wilhelm_land at compuserve.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:57 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: UML


Are any persons in this group using the unified modelling language?
If yes, could you kindly explain when to use the UML and what the
advantages are?
I have read some articles, but I'm not able to analyse the sense of the
UML.

Would be grateful for some help


Robert



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