Posted by
Jacques Le Roux on
Jun 29, 2006; 9:51pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/bpel-and-bpmn-tp140281p140287.html
From: "BJ Freeman" <
[hidden email]>
> I guess i am a zealot. Just trying not to show it. LOL
> from
http://www.uml.org/> The Unified Modeling Language™ - UML - is OMG's most-used specification,
> and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior,
> and architecture, but also business process and data structure.
> I use eclipse
>
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/ec/productinfosdeceec.jspThanks for the link BJ
Jacques
>
> Jacques Le Roux sent the following on 6/29/2006 1:08 PM:
> > I'm not a zealot of UML and I'm not using it for the moment. But I think
it's a
> > good way to ease understanding between people, even not techies.
> >
> > In fact, Neogia
http://www.nereide.biz/ is build this way partially. They
write
> > UML graphs with Poseidon
http://gentleware.com/index.php and they use a
> > technology that they created with Code Lutin
http://www.codelutin.com/ to
> > generate files (every types ASA there is generator to do it). They wrote
enough
> > generators to ease 70% of the work on Neogia side (Neogia is using OFBiz)
they
> > claim.
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >> Parkinson's law, though is about work expanding to meet the resources.
> >> a lesser known one is the way to win an argument is to speak in an area
> >> that the others can not comprehend so they will not show their ignorance
> >> by speaking against it.
> >>
> >> Most of these modeling proposition, are the same, unless you are a
> >> zealot about it.
> >>
> >> which boils down to good luck.
> >> LOL.
> >>
> >> David Welton sent the following on 6/29/2006 4:18 AM:
> >>>> I believe that was the Idea behind UML (unified Modeling Language)
> >>>>
http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/uml.htm> >>>> It really never got accepted. .
> >>> I think this aims to be much more specific than UML, which is used for
> >>> all kinds of things. It describes services, and how they interact,
> >>> rather than database tables or objects, or other low level things of
> >>> that nature. Perhaps it has a shot at working if it doesn't try to be
> >>> everything to everyone.
> >>>
> >>> Some healthy skepticism is in order, but the idea is interesting. I
> >>> would love to offload the design of these processes to my boss, and
> >>> let a computer worry about translating them into something runnable
> >>> (rather than sitting down and doing it myself:-). But perhaps that's
> >>> just a dream, and in reality the system doesn't work out that well, or
> >>> requires an army of people to implement.
> >>>
> >>> Anyway, just sort of curious what others thought.
> >>>
> >
> >