As you work on consecutive projects, you will eventually find yourself coding the same functionality repeatedly. When you reach this stage, you’re ready to explore the idea of code reuse.
omain-specific languages (DSLs) are becoming more and more difficult to avoid. A growing number of vendors are announcing support for DSLs and, in the process, moving away from all-purpose UML.
he pressure is on for IT to deliver applications that can change on a dime?evolving as quickly as the business evolves even in the face of uncertain requirements. To address
his fourth installment in an ongoing series on XMI leads me to a discussion of components. Components are an essential building block of your data model and are thus a
pen source software is gaining increased attention and is clearly making its mark in the IT portfolio of many small and medium businesses. The increased usage of Linux, the availability
ometimes bad things happen to good people. For many developers, that is the perfect summation of how the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act has affected their daily lives. At first blush, the
ecurity is one of the most important aspects in the software development life cycle. Everyday some software product’s exploit is published all over the Internet. As soon as an attacker
n this article you’ll see an exciting use for XMI?reading the connections between two server nodes in a UML diagram using C#. While my last XMI article collected information about
ere’s an interesting coincidence: The “UML Conference,” where I delivered the keynote speech a few days ago, changed its name to “MoDELS & UML.” Similarly, the “UML & Design World”