RE: [ubl-lcsc] Modeling Core Component Types

["CRAWFORD, Mark" <MCRAWFORD@lmi.org>]

> I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but MagicDraw 
> (www.magicdraw.com) supports UML 1.4 which in turn supports constraints 
> attached to 
> classifiers associations and interfaces. The constraints themselves can 
> be "textual" 
> or in OCL (Object Constrain Language, a standard syntax). 

>Wrong kind of constraint, that is, it's a constraint at the wrong level.  
>UML constraints are constraints on the objects/classes being described, 
>not constraints on the usage of UML itself.  The kind of constraints I am 
>talking about are equivalent to usage constraints for UML (i.e. which 
>features you must or must not use, what conventions you must or must not 
>use, etc.). 

Tony - 

Exactly what the UN/CEFACT Modelling Methodology (UMM) is all about.  A defined methodology for using UMM to define business processes.

 

Mark