Hi Mathew, (01)
That sounds great. Can you generate it from the output of a UML model?
How does it compare with what I've done at
www.hypercube.co.uk/edmcouncil which aims to fulfil that exact same
requirement from within UML but is by no means perfect? (02)
Mike (03)
Matthew West wrote:
> Dear Ed,
>
>
>> The trick is not to be excessively geeky. My late mentor, Dr. Selden
>> Stewart, once observed that all modeling languages are BLAs -- boxes,
>> lines and annotations. As long as you stick with class boxes/balls,
>> association/property lines/wires, and text labels (annotations), you
>> don't violate the "anti-technical" prejudices of "business persons".
>>
>
> [MW] OK. If that is your objective then I will throw what was originally (as
> far as I know) the CDIF (CASE Data Interchange Format) notation into the
> ring. This consists of named boxes for classes/entity types and named arrows
> for relationships/relations, where the direction of the arrow tells you
> which direction to read the relationship name in (and nothing else). So you
> could have:
>
> A --part of--> B, or
> A <--has part-- B
>
> My experience is that this notation is not only very simple, but very easy
> for anyone to read.
>
> Regards
>
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