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TextUML Toolkit 1.3 is now available

Started Jun. 16, 2009

Looking for contributors to textual UML modeling tool
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Rafael Chaves Apr. 25, 2009.

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Rafael Chaves replied to Paulo Cesar Mattos Ferreira's discussion 'Preparing for MDD'

Paulo, Please take no offense, but I think of the approach you describe as 'mindless modeling'. I think that building models that don't lead to running code a disservice to any software organization, and actually that instead of laying the ground f…

February 19

Rafael Chaves replied to Paulo Cesar Mattos Ferreira's discussion 'Preparing for MDD'

Paulo, why would you model if you don't plan to generate running code from it? Even if you want to start only experimenting with MDD, you should go all the way, from model to runnable code. You manage risk by starting with the smallest subsystem th…

February 18

Rafael Chaves replied to Mark Dalgarno's discussion 'MDSD - Myths wanted'

I just blogged about this: "Myths that give model-driven development a bad name"

February 7

Rafael Chaves replied to Ricardo's discussion 'Can be a multithreaded server created with MDD?'

What Scott said.

January 29

Rafael Chaves replied to Xomega Team's discussion 'XML-based Model Driven Development'

I think this is (or used to be) quite common. I worked with code generation from XML files using XSLT back in 2001/2002. We also implemented translators from ArgoUML/Tau UML XMI to our own schema. As Pedro also mentions, maintainability of XSLT tem…

November 13, 2009

Rafael Chaves replied to Peter Adriaenssens's discussion 'Open source and MDA'

Please reply to http://www.modeldrivensoftware.net/forum/topics/open-source-and-model-driven instead.

October 22, 2009

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TextUML Toolkit 1.3 is now available

The TextUML Toolkit team is proud to announce the latest release of its innovative open-source UML modeling tool that uses a textual notation. With the TextUML Toolkit, you can create detailed UML models at the same speed you write code. By adopting…

June 16, 2009

Rafael Chaves replied to Rafael Chaves's discussion 'Looking for contributors to textual UML modeling tool'

Thanks for checking it out, Selo. Besides supporting structural features, since version 1.2 TextUML also exposes UML action semantics in the form of an action language. There is little evidence of that on the web site, but you might find these blog…

April 25, 2009