UML 2.0 Superstructure Submission 2nd revision

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UML 2.0 Superstructure Submission(2nd revision)

• U2 Partners(www.u2-partners.org)
• March 2003

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Overview

• Proposal status
• Change summary
• Satisfaction of Requirements
• Pragmatics
• Recommendations

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Proposal Status

• Second revised submission
• UML Superstructure v. 2.0 (2nd revision)
• ad/03-01-02 in response to ad/00-09-02
• Support artifacts
• ad/03-01-04 XMI (XMI format)
• ad/03-01-06 Abstract Syntax (MDL format)
• Reuses
• UML Infrastructure v. 2.0 (3rd revision)
• ad/03-01-01 in response to ad/00-09-01
• Change summary
• ad/03-03-08 changes apply to ad/03-01-02
• Convenience documents ad/03-03-02 (PDF),
  ad/03-03-04 (XMI), and ad/03-03-06 (MDL)

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U2 Partners

• Submitters
• Alcatel, CA, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, I-Logix,
  IONA, Kabira, Motorola, Oracle, Rational,
  SOFTEAM, Telelogic, Unisys
• New Adaptive, Borland, Domain Architects, MEGA
  International
• Supporters
• Advanced Concepts Center LLC, Ceira Technologies,
  Commissariat à L'Energie Atomique, Compuware,
  DaimlerChrysler, Embarcadero Technologies, Enea
  Data, France Telecom, Fraunhofer FOKUS,
  Gentleware, Intellicorp, Jaczone, Kennedy Carter,
  Klasse Objecten, KLOCwork, Lockheed Martin,
  Mercury Computer, MSC.Software, Northeastern
  University, Popkin Software, Proforma, Sims
  Associates, Syntropy Ltd., Sun Microsystems,
  University of Kaiserslautern, University of Kent,
  VERIMAG, WebGain, and 88solutions
• New Artisan, Project Technology

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Specification Outline

• Part I Structure
• Classes
• Components
• Composite Structures
• Deployments
• Part II Behavior
• Actions
• Activities
• Common Behaviors
• Interactions
• State Machines
• Use Cases
• Supplement
• Auxiliary Constructs
• Profiles
• Appendices

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Top-Level Packages
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Change Summary

• Changes are organized by chapter and appendix
• Most changes are relatively minor (tuning and bug
  fixing)
• Most significant change area is Templates
• now architecturally aligned with 2U Templates
• See ad/03-03-08 for details

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Satisfaction of Requirements

• Proposal satisfies all RFP section 6.5 mandatory
  requirements and most section 6.6 optional
  requirements
• summary provided in Preface

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Pragmatics

• Proof of concept (RFP section 4.8)
• validated by multiple vendors with prototypes and
  implementations
• Other verification validation
• strict reuse of U2P Infrastructure
• automated generation of XMI
• partial automated verification of model
• reviewed by .NET/COM and J2EE/EJB experts
  regarding component-based development support
• reviewed by Systems Engineering DSIG, AP-233
  (systems engineering), STEP/EXPRESS
  (manufacturing) and Radio SW domain experts
  regarding architectural alignment
• reviewed by 50 U2 Partners and their customers

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Pragmatics (contd)

• Compliance
• FoundationKernel is required
• all other packages are optional compliance points
• compliance options no, partial, compliant
  interchange
• Changes to OMG adopted specifications
• UML Infrastructure UML Superstructure
  recommended to completely replace UML 1.x and UML
  1.y with Action Semantics
• recommend retirement of IDL for model interchange
• backward compatibility addressed in detail

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Recommendations

• After carefully considering the pros and cons of
  voting-to-recommend this meeting vs. further
  delay, our submission team has agreed to
• request a short additional submission deadline of
  April 11 to
• make the March 3rd convenience documents the new
  submission baseline
• additional changes to the new baseline will be
  limited to 1) 3 relatively minor changes
  previously agreed upon within our submission
  team and 2) fixes to correct XMI generation
  problems
• request a vote-to-vote in Paris on the new
  submission as described above, and to vote YES to
  recommend it

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Wrap up

• 2nd revised Superstructure satisfies all RFP
  mandatory requirements and most optional
  requirements (RFP sections 6.5 6.6)
• summary provided in submission Preface
• Proofs of concept include prototypes and
  implementations (RFP section 4.8)
• Submission is architecturally aligned with
• U2P Infrastructure 2.0 (3rd revision)
• MOF 2.0 Core and MOF 2.0 XMI submissions
• Next steps
• resubmit final proposal NLT April 11
• vote-to-vote on final proposal in Paris

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Further Info

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