XMIFORUM.ORG -- The XMI Forum http://www.xmiforum.org en Sebastian Werner (mailto:webmaster@xmiforum.org) Sebastian Werner (mailto:webmaster@xmiforum.org) Copyright 2003, Sebastian Werner. The projects collects and publishes information about the various acronyms prevalent within the XML technology. We develop a XML language (formulated using W3Cs XML Schema accompanied with a plain english semantics description) to store, exchange, and process information about the various acronyms of the XML technology. These information include the expansion of the respective acronym together with textual background information about the technology behind. Additionally, web references to normative resources and optionally links to examples should also be included. Further, the project delivers a XSLT sheet allowing to transfer the XML coded acronym information into the input format suitable for the Babylon Translator. Hence, the project will also release the acronym information as pre-built Babylon glossary. Since there are so many XML related acronyms the targeted goal cannot be accomplished without external involvement. The project will therefore strongly encourage all interested parties to contribute. http://www.xml-acronym-demystifier.org Countless organizations rely on UML (Unified Modeling Language) in the software development process. But software to manage UML itself has a well-earned reputation for being inflexible and difficult. This article describes how the Danish development house Ideogramic ApS extended XMI (an XML specification targeted at such metadata as UML), and explores both the benefits and limitations of "XMLization." Source: IBM http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xmi/?n-x-1111 The new release features two new plugins and various improvements and bugfixes http://www.eclipse.org/emf 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. http://www.omg.org/news/releases/pr2003/6-12-032.htm jeckle.de offers an online transformation service capable of dynamically generating vector graphics from UML models. The UML models which are represented by XMI-compliant XML files are turned into vector graphics complying to W3C's SVG standard. The service was jointly developed by M. Jeckle, D. Boicourt, and B. Stritt. Gentleware supported the the XMI generation by providing an implementation of UML 2.0's upcomming Diagram Interchange specification. Currently only XMI versions compliant to UML 2.0's metamodel (which explicitely includes diagram interchange data) is supported. Best results are created by using Poseidon to export the required XMI files. http://www.jeckle.de/UML2SVG/index.html Eclipse.org has published version 1.0.1 of the EMF on October 4th. The new version includes a documentation plugin, generator enhancements, an ecore model editor and some bugfixes. <br/><br/> EMF is a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model. From a model specification described in XMI, EMF provides tools and runtime support to produce a set of Java classes for the model, a set of adapter classes that enable viewing and command-based editing of the model, and a basic editor. Models can be specified using annotated Java, XML documents, or modeling tools like Rational Rose, then imported into EMF. Most important of all, EMF provides the foundation for interoperability with other EMF-based tools and applications http://www.eclipse.org/emf/