Dear Mike, (01)
> That sounds great. Can you generate it from the output of a UML model? (02)
[MW] Probably not. I create them in PowerPoint (or your favourite drawing
package - they all do boxes and arrows) as part of the requirements capture
process. (03)
> 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? (04)
[MW] If I compare it to UML (any form) it is simpler and easier to
understand, but does not contain much detail (not much - if anything - in
the way of rules). You would add these just as text. (05)
Regards (06)
Matthew West
http://www.matthew-west.org.uk/ (07)
>
> Mike
>
> 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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