Re: [regrep-cc-review] How Should UML Be Treated? (Was: Re: [regrep-cc-review] Kickoff!)

[David RR Webber - XML ebusiness <Gnosis_@compuserve.com>]

Joe,

There is also a requirement that you should be able to do
ebXML - WITHOUT - having to use UML.

Therefore - I had envisioned that - XML serialization - means
precisely that - providing an XML structure that serializes the
information of CCTS artifacts - and stores them into the 
registry.

Whether they come from a UML tool - a database, a webform,
a Perl script, a Java program - et al -  we should not care.

BTW - I thought that was another principle we were working
to - providing open neutral mechanisms.

Thanks, DW.

p.s. Have any UML tool vendors said they will support 
interfacing to an ebXML registry and proposed a pilot?
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Message text written by "Chiusano Joseph"
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Precisely! Taking it from the UML object's point of view: My question is
regarding whether or not the registry is expected to "reach in" to the
UML model and extract the attributes that are defined in CCTS Section 7,
and take action on them (by registering the UML model with those
attribute values assigned to the RIM metadata as appropriate). Or, is
everything that we need external to the UML model? I think that if we
answer the question of what a UML model (not metamodel) looks like, it
will help.
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